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 Samuel Butler’s years in colonial New Zealand and by his reading of Darwin’s Origin of Species, Erewhon (1872) is a highly original, irreverent and humorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy and the unthinking acceptance of beliefs.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 272 ● ISBN 9780141905044 ● 编辑 Peter Mudford ● 出版者 Penguin Books Ltd ● 发布时间 1974 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2268327 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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