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Penguin Classics: Erewhon - Samuel Butler
9780140430578
Περιγραφή
Publisher: Penguin - Penguin Classics: Erewhon - Samuel Butler
Description:
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.
Χαρακτηριστικά
Γλώσσα:
Αγγλικά
Διαστάσεις:
198Χ129Χ15
Εκδότης:
Έτος:
2006
Σελίδες:
272
Συγγραφέας:
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης:
22-02-2006
