Erewhon

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Erewhon

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Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited

Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited ab 36.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: . Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,

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Erscheinungsdatum: 18.08.2014, Medium: Buch, Einband: Gebunden, Titel: Love and Murder, Titelzusatz: The Last Voyage of the Erewhon, Autor: Mooney, Bill, Verlag: iUniverse, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: FICTION // Action & Adventure, Rubrik: Belletristik // Romane, Erzählungen, Seiten: 230, Informationen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag, Gewicht: 458 gr, Verkäufer: averdo

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Erewhon

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Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited

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Erewhon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min

Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a young traveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, and is given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. But their visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal community has its faults - here crime is treated indulgently as a malady to be cured, while illness, poverty, and misfortune are cruelly punished, and all machines have been superstitiously destroyed after a bizarre prophecy. In Erewhon, criminals are considered to be ill and are "treated" by "straightners" who make them well, whereas those who have physical illnesses (or suffer bad luck) are considered criminal and are tried and punished. Thus an embezzler will be treated for his "illness" and the party who was robbed will be tried in the Court of Misplaced Confidence. The consistency with which Butler carries through with this conceit is impressive and consistently entertaining, and this is only one of the "curious" conventions of Erewhonian society. Another fascinating chapter in Erewhon explains how machines are on an evolutionary track that will surpass and then come to dominate their human creators. The detail of the argument is impressive (the discussion of "vestigial organs" in machines is hysterical and accurate), and no matter how far-fetched it must have seemed in 1872 when the book was published, it seems much less a satire and more a serious fear today. This is a book of great intelligence and wicked humour. As a simultaneous mind-stretching exercise and laugh-generating experience, there are few novels of any age that are its peer. Samuel Butler (1835-1902), a British writer strongly influenced by his New Zealand experiences, is best known for his utopian satire, Erewhon, and his posthumous novel, The Way of All Flesh. Butler was born in Langar Rectory, near Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England, into a long line of clerics. Butler, who was a detractor from widely-acce ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Maloney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012029/bk_adbl_012029_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Erewhon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 509min

Erewhon is not only an adventure story but also Butler's satirical inversion of English customs and philosophy in the 19th century. The explorer Higgs discovers a well organised and civilised country - apparently idyllic. However, the body politic has two ruling obsessions, disease is considered a crime and machinery is seen as a threat to the supremacy of man. In his story Butler identified certain social and industrial conditions which have since become large moral problems. Ever present poverty and encroaching technology ensure that these problems are likely to be with us for a long time. Fantasy Erewhon may be, yet it still has a ring of truth and the power to disturb. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000101/bk_assm_000101_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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