Erewhon
To celebrate its 150th anniversary, a bold new edition of the utopian/dystopian classic that gave Erewhon its name.
Quantity | Price | Discount |
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List Price | $14.95 | |
1 - 24 | $12.71 | 15% |
25 - 99 | $10.47 | 30% |
100 - 499 | $9.72 | 35% |
500 + | $9.42 | 37% |
Non-returnable discount pricing
$14.95
Book Information
Publisher: | Erewhon Books |
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Publish Date: | 10/18/2022 |
Pages: | 304 |
ISBN-13: | 9781645660477 |
ISBN-10: | 1645660478 |
Language: | English |
Full Description
"[Takes] imagination of a very high order to see that machinery could be dangerous as well as useful." --George Orwell, celebrated author of Animal Farm and 1984 A utopian classic with a rich legacy-influencing authors from Huxley to Herbert and beyond-Erewhon satirizes Victorian society with biting insight still relevant today. When Higgs, a young traveler, stumbles upon the beautiful land of Erewhon, he soon discovers that its seemingly ideal culture is founded upon bizarre, unsettling beliefs. Crime is a sickness, while sickness is a crime; the greatest scholarly achievement is unreason, and all machines have been eliminated for fear of artificial intelligence. In a society that suppresses originality, the traveler and his values are a threat. Torn between escape and Arowhena, the woman he has grown to love, Higgs must contend with Erewhon's strange ways-and with the challenges they pose to his own beliefs. Engaging with the work of Charles Darwin and inspired by the author's time in colonial New Zealand, Erewhon is a bright, irreverent, and enduring text about technology, religion, crime, and institutional rigidity. This new edition of the 1872 classic arrives in honor of its 150th anniversary, featuring a brilliant introduction contextualizing the book from one of New Zealand's great academic thinkers in science fiction, Dr. Octavia Cade.