Penguin 1st Edition, published 1935.
Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a young traveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon and is given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. But their visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal community has its faults - here crime is treated indulgently as a malady to be cured, while illness, poverty and misfortune are cruelly punished, and all machines have been superstitiously destroyed after a bizarre prophecy.
Can he survive in a world where morality is turned upside down? Inspired by Butler's years in colonial New Zealand and by his reading of Darwin's Origin of Species, Erewhon is a highly original, irreverent and humorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy and the unthinking acceptance of beliefs.
Condition grading: Very Good book in Fair dust jacket. Dust jacket has tape-repaired tears, ragged top edge, loss to rear cover bottom corner and fold to price flap. Book has minor bumping wear to spine ends and faded top edge to rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1935.
Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a young traveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon and is given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. But their visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal community has its faults - here crime is treated indulgently as a malady to be cured, while illness, poverty and misfortune are cruelly punished, and all machines have been superstitiously destroyed after a bizarre prophecy.
Can he survive in a world where morality is turned upside down? Inspired by Butler's years in colonial New Zealand and by his reading of Darwin's Origin of Species, Erewhon is a highly original, irreverent and humorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy and the unthinking acceptance of beliefs.
Condition grading: Very Good book in Fair dust jacket. Dust jacket has tape-repaired tears, ragged top edge, loss to rear cover bottom corner and fold to price flap. Book has minor bumping wear to spine ends and faded top edge to rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
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