Erewhon by Butler, Samuel

New York. 1961. January 1961. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Afterword By Kingsley Amis. 240 pages. paperback. CD41. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Disease is a crime punishable by imprisonment. Machines are considered dangerous; they have been destroyed and banished from the land. This is the way of the world in Erewhon, the imaginary country of simple, straightforward people that was created by Samuel Butler to serve as a foil for his attack on 'modern' life and thought. With wit and imagination the master satirist lashed out at evolution, medicine, education, justice. And paradoxically he presented several sides of each issue in a many - sided tale of adventure, ideas, escape. As Kingsley Amis points out in his Afterword to this Signet Classic, EREWHON is the first modern Utopian romance, a novel which directly anticipates Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD and Orwell's 1984. inventory #28941