Erewhon, Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler, Fiction, Classics, Satire, Fantasy, Literary (Hardcover)

from theokester

Erewhon, as a satire and/or essay, is interesting and has some thought provoking ideas. Erewhon as a novel has a fairly thin but still interesting plot line in an intriguing environment. Unfortunately, meshing the two of these together makes for a difficult book to swallow at times. I enjoyed the...

from DinadansFriend

Somewhat redolent of "Gulliver's Travels", and certainly ancestor of a great deal of later Science fiction, one should read this vision of English society viewed through a mythical-kingdom looking glass. You can still find some ripples of this book battering the shores of the Sci-Fi pond!

from SashaM

There is a lot that is still relevant and many point that will make you think. While it may have been written as a study / satire of Victorian life and morals there are may points that will make you think - eg. getting rid of the machines because they will eventually evolve to superceed us has ec...

from Eyejaybee

Samuel Butler's Erewhon, first published in 1872, is a natural descendant of Sir Thomas More's Utopia [even down to the title making clear that the land in question doesn't exist ('Erewhon' being an anagram of 'nowhere')] and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Related in the first person, Butle...

from baswood

Erewhon - Samuel Butler "My publisher wishes me to say a few words about the genesis of the work, a revised and enlarged edition of which he is herewith laying before the public.Having now, I fear, at too great length done what I was asked to do, I should like to add a few words on my own account...