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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Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler, romancista, ensaísta e crítico inglês cuja sátira <i>Erewhon</i> (1872) previu o colapso da ilusão vitoriana do eterno progresso. <i>The Way of All Flesh</i> (1903), seu romance semiautobiográfico, é geralmente considerado sua obra-prima.
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