Erewhon or Over the Range by Samuel Butler
Erewhon or Over the Range by Samuel Butler
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A traveller discovers a strange inverted society
Very Good Condition – light jacket and edge wear visible.
A young English traveller crosses a remote mountain range and enters Erewhon, an isolated country whose customs appear familiar at first but become increasingly unsettling. In this society, illness is treated as a moral offence, criminal behaviour may receive sympathy, and machines have been outlawed because of fears that they could evolve beyond human control. As the narrator studies Erewhonian religion, education, law, and social expectations, Samuel Butler turns the journey into a sharp satire of Victorian assumptions. Blending adventure, philosophy, and speculative fiction, Erewhon questions progress, hypocrisy, technology, and the institutions people accept simply because they have always been there.
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