A young traveller sets out to make his fortune and discovers the idyllic distant land of Erewhon. Its people welcome him with open arms, but this apparent utopia soon reveals its darker side. In Erewhon, money has no value and disease is a crime, yet poverty is punishable and criminals are cared for as though sick. How can he survive in a land where morality makes no sense?Erewhon is Samuel Butlers classic utopian satire about the hypocrisy of religion and Victorian society. Influenced by Darwins recently published On the Origin of Species, it is most famous for its ground-breaking idea of mechanical consciousness. In 1901, Butler published a sequel entitled Erewhon Revisited. Both books are perfect for fans of Gullivers Travels.
"A great book because it gives an honest picture of the relationship between father and son, and it could do that because Butler was a truly independent observer, and above all because he was courageous. He would say things that other people knew but didnt dare to say. And finally there was his clear, simple, straightforward way of writing, never using a long word where a short one will do." George Orwell"If the house caught on fire, the Victorian novel I would rescue from the flames would be The Way of All Flesh". William MaxwellThe Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature. One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butlers desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." V. S. Pritchett"One of the summits of human achievement." George Bernard Shaw"The Way of All Flesh" (1903) exploded like a bomb in Edwardian drawing rooms. Based on Samuel Butlers own life and published posthumously, it offers a scathing indictment of Victorian bourgeois values as personified in five generations of the Pontifex family.Butlers satire centers on Ernest Pontifex, an orthodox young man who suddenly sees the falseness of the rules and expectations forced on him by parents and teachers, an epiphany which leads him to renounce the moral, religious, and social values he once held.
Homers epic tale of Odysseus and his tenyear journey home after the Trojan war is one of the earliest and greatest works of literature His influence on the Western imagination is immense Plato calls him the leader of Greek culture Samuel Butler has beautifully rendered Homers Greek verse intoEnglish prose Unabridged with footnotes
Cuando el viajero descubre la remota tierra de Erewhon, encuentra una extraña sociedad donde se ha prohibido el uso de todas las máquinas, incluidos los relojes, y donde encarcelan a los enfermos mientras que hospitalizan a los criminales. Publicada en 1872, esta satira denuncia la sustitucion del sentido comun y la razon por la demagogia y el anquilosamiento de ideologias incuestionables. Aparte de su vigencia, Erewhon conserva su frescura y originalidad como extraordinaria mezcla de novela de viajes, ficcion utopica y tratado filosofico con pinceladas autobiograficas y una historia de amor.
'We object to progress,' said the venerable Professor of Worldly Wisdom. When the traveller Higgs discovers the remote land of Erewhon he finds a strange race who have forbidden the use of machines, who treat their sick like criminals and their criminals like sick people, who suppress originality and hold that the greatest scholarly achievement is proficiency in the study of unreason and hypothetics. The great debunker of the social and religious hypocrisy of his day, Samuel Butler began to write this satirical novel shortly after he had read The Origin of Species, which influenced him greatly. First published in 1872, Erewhon still retains its freshness and originality and we have as much to learn from it as ever.
«El destino de la carne» es una obra intensamente autobiográfica. Su protagonista, Ernest Pontifex, encarna muchos de los conflictos que gobernaron la vida de su autor. Nacido en le seno de una famil
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