| Erewhon by Samuel Butler, Fiction, Classics, Satire, Fantasy, Literary Contributor(s): Butler, Samuel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1603124543 ISBN-13: 9781603124546 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2008 Annotation: After a series of near-mishaps, a traveler stumbles into a place utterly unknown to him -- only to be jailed: for in this odd place being penniless is tantamount to criminality. Slowly learning the language and gaining the confidence of his hosts, he comes to know their strange ways and their stranger ideas and institutions -- including the Hospital for Incurable Bores, the College of Unreason -- and the Museum of Old Machines! "Erewhon," the famous utopian novel by Samuel Butler, took the English-speaking world by storm in 1872, and remains effective and entertaining satire to this day. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.64 lbs) 192 pages |
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| Publisher Description: After a series of near-mishaps, a traveler stumbles into a place utterly unknown to him -- only to be jailed: for in this odd place being penniless is tantamount to criminality. Slowly learning the language and gaining the confidence of his hosts, he comes to know their strange ways and their stranger ideas and institutions -- including the Hospital for Incurable Bores, the College of Unreason -- and the Museum of Old Machines
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Contributor Bio(s): Butler, Samuel: - "Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) was an iconoclastic English author of a variety of works. Two of his most famous works are the Utopian satire Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art and works of literary history and criticism. Butler made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that remain in use to this day." |