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Erewhon
Chapitres (33)
- Epigraph 0:00
- Preface to First Edition 0:10
- Preface to Second Edition 0:24
- Preface to the Revised Edition 6:07
- I: Waste Lands 14:12
- II: In the Wool-Shed 27:58
- III: Up the River 37:40
- IV: The Saddle 49:31
- V: The River and the Range 1:06:56
- VI: Into Erewhon 1:24:56
- VII: First Impressions 1:43:22
- VIII: In Prison 1:59:01
- IX: To the Metropolis 2:15:57
- X: Current Opinions 2:38:35
- XI: Some Erewhonian Trials 3:02:15
- XII: Malcontents 3:18:09
- XIII: The Views of the Erewhonians Concerning Death 3:34:44
- XIV: Mahaina 3:50:07
- XV: The Musical Banks 3:59:12
- XVI: Arowhena 4:25:46
- XVII: Ydgrun and the Ydgrunites 4:43:24
- XVIII: Birth Formulae 4:57:39
- XIX: The World of the Unborn 5:08:56
- XX: What They Mean by It 5:26:08
- XXI: The Colleges of Unreason 5:41:49
- XXII: The Colleges of Unreason—Continued 5:59:23
- XXIII: The Book of the Machines 6:19:56
- XXIV: The Machines—Continued 6:34:05
- XXV: The Machines—Concluded 6:54:29
- XXVI: The Views of an Erewhonian Prophet Concerning the Rights of Animals 7:23:41
- XXVII: The Views of an Erewhonian Prophet Concerning the Rights of Vegetables 7:41:19
- XXVIII: Escape 8:00:30
- XXIX: Conclusion 8:23:59
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In a desire for better sheep-farming land on an unnamed British colony, Higgs decides to traverse the distant mountain range. On the other side he discovers not the empty rolling plains of his imagination but an entirely new civilization: the land of Erewhon. Inducted into the ways of their culture, he attempts to transcribe as best he can their thoughts on birth, death, machines, the production of food, their financial system, and many more subjects that on first glance seem absurd to the narrator but often end up revealing absurdity in his own thinking.
Erewhon was extremely well received on its initial (and anonymous) publication, with its satirical commentary on contemporary Victorian attitudes ensuring its commercial success. Samuel Butler incorporated into the novel his philosophical ideas, including chapters founded on his interest in Darwinian evolution theory, and on the potential rise in artificial consciousness. George Orwell held the novel in high regard, and the Erewhonian philosophy on the danger of machines even made its way into Frank Herbert’s Dune series as the “Butlerian jihad.”