tion>Samuel Butler
Erewhon; Or, Over the Range
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664173560
Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
CHAPTER V: THE RIVER AND THE RANGE
CHAPTER VII: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
CHAPTER XI: SOME EREWHONIAN TRIALS
CHAPTER XIII: THE VIEWS OF THE EREWHONIANS CONCERNING DEATH
CHAPTER XVII: YDGRUN AND THE YDGRUNITES
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
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
The Author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short—thus, Ĕ-rĕ-whŏn.
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
Having been enabled by the kindness of the public to get through an unusually large edition of “Erewhon” in a very short time, I have taken the opportunity of a second edition to make some necessary corrections, and to add a few passages where it struck me that they would be appropriately introduced; the passages are few, and it is my fixed intention never to touch the work again.
I may perhaps be allowed to say a word or two here in reference to “The Coming Race,” to the success of which book “Erewhon” has been very generally set down as due. This is a mistake, though a perfectly natural one. The fact is that “Erewhon” was finished, with the exception of the last twenty pages and a sentence or two inserted from time to time here and there throughout the book, before the first advertisement of “The Coming Race” appeared. A friend having called my attention to one of the first of these advertisements, and suggesting that it probably referred to a work of similar character to my own, I took “Erewhon” to a well-known firm of publishers on the 1st of May 1871, and left it in their hands for consideration. I then went abroad, and on learning that the publishers alluded to declined the MS., I let it alone for six or seven months, and, being in an out-of-the-way part of Italy, never saw a single review of “The Coming Race,” nor a copy of the work. On
