Erewhon, Samuel Butler
Erewhon, Samuel Butler
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Erewhon

Author: Samuel Butler

Narrator: AI Voice Andrew Jackson

Unabridged: 7 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/22/2026

Categories: Fiction, Satire


Synopsis

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Beyond a remote mountain range lies Erewhon, a mysterious land where the rules of society are unlike anything the outside world has ever known.

When a curious young traveler discovers this isolated civilization, he encounters a world of astonishing contradictions. Illness is punished as a crime, criminals are treated as patients, and machines have been banned out of fear that they might one day surpass humanity. As he explores Erewhon's strange institutions and customs, he begins to question the very foundations of morality, religion, education, and progress.

First published in 1872, Erewhon is Samuel Butler's groundbreaking satirical novel, blending adventure, philosophical speculation, and early science fiction. Through sharp wit and imaginative social criticism, Butler exposes the absurdities of Victorian society while raising timeless questions about human nature, conformity, and technology.

A thought-provoking literary classic that challenges readers to reconsider everything they take for granted about civilization.

About Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, which remain in use to this day.


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