Erewhon

by Samuel Butler

Book Overview

Written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, English novelist, essayist, and iconoclast Samuel Butler (1835-1902) describes an imaginary visit to a topsy-turvy country called Erewhon (an anagram of "nowhere"), where it is a punishable offense to be physically ill, but where criminality and immorality are looked kindly upon as treatable diseases. The English church is pilloried in the system of "Musical Banks," whose currency nobody...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0460008811
• ISBN13: 9780460008815
• Release Date: January 1959
• Publisher: Biblio Distribution Centre
• Length: 389 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.