Erewhon Revisited
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: The Travellers' Library
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
What if the land beyond the mountains you once discovered had, in your absence, transformed your very arrival into a religion? Erewhon Revisited is Samuel Butler's sharp and satirical sequel to his celebrated 1872 utopian novel, chronicling the return of Higgs — the original explorer of Erewhon — to the strange, inverted society he left behind, only to discover that he has been deified as the Sunchild and that his ascent by balloon has become the cornerstone of an elaborate and zealously guarded faith. Butler wields his narrative as a precision instrument of social critique, dissecting with merciless wit the mechanisms of organised religion, institutional hypocrisy, and the ease with which myth supplants truth in the minds of both the powerful and the credulous. A masterwork of Victorian satirical fiction, the novel stands as one of Butler's most pointed arguments against dogma and intellectual conformity, written with the dry, ironic detachment that defined his literary voice. The prose is elegant yet incisive, drawing on Butler's own lifelong quarrels with Darwinism, Christianity, and the Victorian establishment to construct a parable that resonates far beyond its era. First published in 1901, shortly before Butler's death, it remains a startlingly prescient meditation on the birth of belief — and a darkly comic warning about what happens when a living man confronts the legend made in his name.
Author: Samuel Butler
Format: Hardback
Published: 1926, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: The Travellers' Library
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
What if the land beyond the mountains you once discovered had, in your absence, transformed your very arrival into a religion? Erewhon Revisited is Samuel Butler's sharp and satirical sequel to his celebrated 1872 utopian novel, chronicling the return of Higgs — the original explorer of Erewhon — to the strange, inverted society he left behind, only to discover that he has been deified as the Sunchild and that his ascent by balloon has become the cornerstone of an elaborate and zealously guarded faith. Butler wields his narrative as a precision instrument of social critique, dissecting with merciless wit the mechanisms of organised religion, institutional hypocrisy, and the ease with which myth supplants truth in the minds of both the powerful and the credulous. A masterwork of Victorian satirical fiction, the novel stands as one of Butler's most pointed arguments against dogma and intellectual conformity, written with the dry, ironic detachment that defined his literary voice. The prose is elegant yet incisive, drawing on Butler's own lifelong quarrels with Darwinism, Christianity, and the Victorian establishment to construct a parable that resonates far beyond its era. First published in 1901, shortly before Butler's death, it remains a startlingly prescient meditation on the birth of belief — and a darkly comic warning about what happens when a living man confronts the legend made in his name.