{"product_id":"erewhon-9781645660477","title":"Erewhon","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"[Takes] imagination of a very high order to see that machinery could be dangerous as well as useful.\" --George Orwell, celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA utopian classic with a rich legacy-influencing authors from Huxley to Herbert and beyond-Erewhon satirizes Victorian society with biting insight still relevant today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEngaging with the work of Charles Darwin and inspired by the author's time in colonial New Zealand, \u003ci\u003eErewhon\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Butler\u003c\/b\u003e was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire \u003ci\u003eErewhon\u003c\/i\u003e and the posthumous novel \u003ci\u003eThe Way of All Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e, his two best-known works. Butler also made prose translations of \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e which remain in use to this day.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Erewhon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50485326250258,"sku":"9781645660477","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ec0e88d3-2786-48b4-8f37-30f38145de15.jpg?v=1748685825","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/erewhon-9781645660477","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}