Erewhon [Audiobook] download free by Samuel Butler
- Listen audiobook: Erewhon
- Author: Samuel Butler
- Release date: 2002/4/11
- Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
- ISBN: 9780486420486
- Rating: 8.66 of 10
- Votes: 481
- Review by: Kellen Stuckey
- Review rating: 8.17 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/25
- Duration: 2H19M23S in 256 kbps (38.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WavPack, FLAC, MP3, WAV, MPEG4, AIFF, MPC (compression RAR, BZ, CBC, ARJ, TAR.BZ2, ZIP, DMG)
- Total pages original book: 192
- Includes a PDF summary of 20 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M5S (4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In a faraway land, a traveler encounters a peculiar, topsy-turvy society in which sickness is a punishable crime and crime is an illness for which criminals receive compassionate medical treatment. The English church is ridiculed as a 'musical bank,' which deals with a currency nobody believes in but which everyone pretends to value. University instructors teach courses on how to take a long time to say nothing, and machines are banned for fear they will evolve and be the masters of man.First published in 1872, Erewhon (an anagram for 'nowhere') is perhaps the most brilliant example of Utopian novels, taking aim at the humbug, hypocrisy, and absurdities surrounding such hallowed institutions as family, church, mechanical progress, advances in scientific theory, and legal systems.Intelligent, inventive, and wickedly humorous, the classic novel protests the blind acceptance of ideas and attitudes, an aspect of Samuel Butler's work that made his fiction enduring, entertaining, and thought-provoking. His remarkable prescience in anticipating future sociological trends adds a special relevance for today's readers.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Classic Books & Novels, Science Fiction
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 6.32 USD
- Dimensions: 132x208x12.95mm
- Weight: 145.15g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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