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Samuel Butler

Erewhon Revisited: Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son

Erewhon Revisited: Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son

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London: A.C. Fifield, 1920; (1908). Eighth Impression of First Edition. 12mo in green cloth with gold stamping to spine; x, 337 pages; 20 cm In very good (-) condition; sunning to spine; minor dampstains on front board; circular dampstain on rear board; bump to top edge of front cover; foxing to edges of leaves and pastedowns; pencil markings on front free endpaper and on first few pages. Hardcover.

Sequel to the novel "Erewhon", Samuel Butler's satire on Victorian society. In this sequel, Butler explores the genesis of religion after the hero Higgs arrives by balloon in Erewhon. The book was rejected by Butler's usual publisher Longman due to its blunt treatment of religious themes, and was picked up by Grant Richards, on the recommendation of George Bernard Shaw. "I have concluded, I believe rightly, that the events described in Chapter XXIV of Erewhon would give rise to such a cataclysmic change in the old Erewhonian opinions as would result in the development of a new religion. Now the development of all new religions follows much the same general course. In all cases the times are more or less out of joint--older faiths are losing their hold on the masses. [...] To chronicle the events that follow Higgs's balloon ascent without shewing that they were much as they have been under like conditions in other places, would be to hold the mirror up to something very wide of nature."--Preface by Samuel Butler // Satirical literature, Utopian fiction, Utopias, Utopias Fiction, Utopies Romans, nouvelles, etc, novels,

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