| Erewhon Contributor(s): Butler, Samuel (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798680546659 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Literary |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.59 lbs) 196 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpt: ...of money and happiness which their folly caused them. But this had an effect of which I have little reason to complain, for I was allowed almost to call them life-long self-deceivers to their faces, and they said it was quite true, but that it did not matter.I must not conclude without expressing my most sincere thanks to my critics and to the public for the leniency and consideration with which they have treated my adventures.June 9, 1872PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITIONMy 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. I therefore place on record as much as I can remember on this head after a lapse of more than thirty years.The first part of "Erewhon" written was an article headed "Darwin among the Machines," and signed Cellarius. It was written in the Upper Rangitata district of the Canterbury Province (as it then was) of New Zealand, and appeared at Christchurch in the Press... |