Erewhon - Butler, Samuel

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Résumé :
Erewhon, an anagram for nowhere, is a faraway land where citizens follow a unique set of rules disregarding conventional beliefs about money, health and science. Beneath the surface, Erewhon is fueled by hypocrisy and inhabitants are riddled with fear. A traveler stumbles across a remote country that appears to be a peaceful paradise. It's a utopian society that doesn't use or value money in a traditional way. Criminals are considered sick and treated as patients, while the ill are imprisoned and labeled as criminals. There's also an overwhelming distrust of machines, which are outlawed due to their potential to evolve and overthrow their masters. Erewhon's superficial qualities grow to become a source of contempt and distrust. Erewhon illustrates a world where an attempt to correct the ills of society causes more harm than good. It's a profound examination of Victorian ethics, benefiting a minority over the majority. Butler's groundbreaking novel has significantly influenced multiple writers in literature and beyond. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Erewhon is both modern and readable. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe....

Biographie:
Samuel Butler was an English novelist, essayist, critic, translator, and intellectual provocateur whose work ranged across fiction, satire, theology, evolutionary theory, art criticism, and classical literature. Born in 1835, Butler was educated at Cambridge and spent several formative years in New Zealand before returning to England and establishing himself as one of the most original independent writers of the late Victorian period. His fiction often used irony, inversion, and speculative settings to expose the contradictions of respectable society, organised religion, inherited doctrine, and unexamined moral convention.Butler is best remembered for Erewhon, his satirical novel of an imaginary country whose customs reverse many assumptions of Victorian life, and for The Way of All Flesh, his posthumously published critique of family, religion, and social conformity. In Erewhon Revisited, he returned to his most famous fictional world with a more direct attack on institutional religion and the making of public myth. His work remains important to readers of Victorian literature, satire, philosophical fiction, early speculative fiction, utopian fiction, and the tradition of dissenting English prose....