Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872. In this satire of Victorian society, the main character Higgs discovers an unknown country, the seeming utopia called Erewhon, Nowhere backwards with the "h" and "w" transposed. The starting chapters detailing the discovery of Erewhon were based on Butler's experiences in New Zealand as a young man. Butler was possibly the first to write about the idea that machines might one day develop consciousness through the process of Darwinian Selection.
Erewhon
or, Over the range
This book might be part of the Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Fiction. [no. 800c] series.
Samuel Butler: Erewhon (1927, E.P. Dutton & company)
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320 pages
English language
Published Sept. 28, 1927 by E.P. Dutton & company.
Subjects
- Utopias.