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Erewhon

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Erewhon is a biting satire which caused a sensation when it was first published anonymously in 1872.

Erewhon is an unknown civilisation on the far side of a range of uncharted mountains in a remote colony of the British Empire. It is a form of anti-Utopia in which illness is a criminal offence, children choose their parents and health and beauty signify morality.

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Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh, his two best-known works, but also extending to examinations of Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian…

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