Erewhon; Or, Over the Range. Samuel Butler

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       Samuel Butler

      Erewhon; Or, Over the Range

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664173560

       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

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      The Author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short—thus, Ĕ-rĕ-whŏn.

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      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

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