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Erewhon Revisited

by Samuel Butler

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1901
Pages
214
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Twenty years after his escape by balloon, the narrator Higgs slips back into the hidden country of Erewhon and finds it transformed. His flight, once a desperate act of survival, has been recast as a miraculous ascension into heaven, and a full religion called Sunchildism has grown up in his name, complete with priests, temples, and dogma. Butler uses the returning traveler to satirize how faiths are manufactured and how inconvenient facts get smoothed away by devout believers. Sharper and more openly anti-clerical than the first book, this sequel deepens the author's lifelong quarrel with organized religion and Victorian piety.

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Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was an English author, painter, and iconoclast who spent formative years sheep farming in New Zealand. A relentless critic of Victorian religion and morality, he is best known for the satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh.

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Book facts

First published
1901
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
214
Language
English
Genre
Satire
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