Fiction · 1872
Erewhon
Or, Over the Range
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Contents
- Note
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to Second Edition
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- Chapter I — Waste Lands
- Chapter II — In the Wool-Shed
- Chapter III — Up the River
- Chapter IV — The Saddle
- Chapter V — The River and the Range
- Chapter VI — Into Erewhon
- Chapter VII — First Impressions
- Chapter VIII — In Prison
- Chapter IX — To the Metropolis
- Chapter X — Current Opinions
- Chapter XI — Some Erewhonian Trials
- Chapter XII — Malcontents
- Chapter XIII — The Views of the Erewhonians Concerning Death
- Chapter XIV — Mahaina
- Chapter XV — The Musical Banks
- Chapter XVI — Arowhena
- Chapter XVII — Ydgrun and the Ydgrunites
- Chapter XVIII — Birth Formulae
- Chapter XIX — The World of the Unborn
- Chapter XX — What They Mean by It
- Chapter XXI — The Colleges of Unreason
- Chapter XXII — The Colleges of Unreason—Continued
- Chapter XXIII — The Book of the Machines
- Chapter XXIV — The Machines—Continued
- Chapter XXV — The Machines—Concluded
- Chapter XXVI — The Views of an Erewhonian Prophet Concerning the Rights of Animals
- Chapter XXVII — The Views of an Erewhonian Philosopher Concerning the Rights of Vegetables
- Chapter XXVIII — Escape
- Chapter XXIX — Conclusion
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1835–1902 · Victorian
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) was an English novelist, painter and critic: the author of the satirical utopia Erewhon (1872) and the posthumous autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (1903). In his last years he published The Authoress of the Odyssey (1897), arguing that the poem was written by a woman in Sicily, and plain prose translations of the Iliad (1898) and the Odyssey (1900) intended for readers without Greek.
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