Erewhon; Or, Over the Range
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In 1859, Samuel Butler, a young Cantabrigian out of joint with his family, with the church, and with the times, left England to hew out his own path in New Zealand. At the end of just five years he returned, with a modest fortune in money and an immense fortune in ideas. For out of this self-imposed exile came Erewhon , one of the world's masterpieces of satire, which contained the germ of Butler's intellectual output for the next twenty years. The Cradle of Erewhon is an examination and interpretation of the special ways in which these few crucial years affected Butler's life and work, partic...
Chapters (35)(click to expand)
- EREWHON
- OR, OVER THE RANGE
- 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
- Footnotes
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