Erewhon; Or, Over the Range
By Samuel Butler
Cover: In the Southern Alps (1881), watercolour by John Gully (1819-1888) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1888)
Erewhon, or Over the Range (ERR-eh-hwon) is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society. Its name is an anagram of the word “nowhere”, with the same meaning as “utopia” (nowhere).
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Table of contents
- 1: Waste Lands
- 2: Waste Lands
- 3: In the Wool-Shed
- 4: Up the River
- 5: The Saddle
- 6: The River and the Range
- 7: Into Erewhon
- 8: First Impressions
- 9: In Prison
- 10: To the Metropolis
- 11: Current Opinions
- 12: Some Erewhonian Trials
- 13: Malcontents
- 14: The Views of the Erewhonians Concerning Death
- 15: Mahaina
- 16: The Musical Banks
- 17: Arowhena
- 18: Ydgrun and the Ydgrunites
- 19: Birth Formulae
- 20: The World of the Unborn
- 21: What They Mean by It
- 22: The Colleges of Unreason
- 23: THE COLLEGES OF UNREASON—Continued
- 24: The Book of the Machines
- 25: THE MACHINES—continued
- 26: THE MACHINES—concluded
- 27: The Views of an Erewhonian Prophet Concerning the Rights
- 28: The Views of an Erewhonian Philosopher Concerning the
- 29: Escape
- 30: Conclusion