Fiction & literature · 1710
Erewhon
or, Over the range
€155
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- First published
- 1700
- This copy printed
- 1710
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Half leather
- Condition
- Fair — Well worn, a reading copy; any faults are described on request.
- Pages
- 241
About this work
Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872. In this satire of Victorian society, the main character Higgs discovers an unknown country, the seeming utopia called Erewhon, Nowhere backwards with the "h" and "w" transposed. The starting chapters detailing the discovery of Erewhon were based on Butler's experiences in New Zealand as a young man. Butler was possibly the first to write about the idea that machines might one day develop consciousness through the process of Darwinian Selection.
