Erewhon (1872) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Narrator: the main character who tells his adventures.
• Chowbok (Kahabuka): a native who guides the narrator and is always trying to get his hands on liquor.
• Senoj Nosnibor: a prominent merchant of Erewhon. (Jones Robinson) spelled backwards.
• Arowhena: youngest daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Nosnibor.
• Zulora: oldest daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Nosnibor.
• Ydgrun: a goddess the Erewhonians worshiped. (A play on the name Grundy.)
• Yram: the jailor's daughter. (Mary spelled backwards.)
• Mahaina: a woman pretending to suffer from dipsomania.
• Mr. Thims: Add a description of this character.

Quotes edit see section history

• “It was astonishing how some of these unfortunate animals would scent out a butcher’s knife if there was one within a mile of them, and run right up against it if the butcher did not get it out of their way in time.”

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• Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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• Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.

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• You may say that it is your misfortune to be criminal; I answer that it is your crime to be unfortunate.

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• I cannot bear having much to do with people who think differently from myself.

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• illness of any sort was considered in Erewhon to be highly criminal and immoral;

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• In fact, I felt that life would be no longer valuable if I were to have seen so great a prize and refused to grasp at the possible profits therefrom.

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• reason uncorrected by instinct is as bad as instinct uncorrected by reason.

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• When the scene is past we think we know it, though there is so much to see, and so little time to see it, that our conceit of knowledge as regards the past is for the most part poorly founded; neither do we care about it greatly, save in so far as it may affect the future, wherein our interest mainly lies.

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• The judge was fully persuaded that the infliction of pain upon the weak and sickly was the only means of preventing weakness and sickliness from spreading,

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• A man's business, they hold, is to think as his neighbours do, for Heaven help him if he thinks good what they count bad. And really it is hard to see how the Erewhonian theory differs from our own, for the word 'idiot' only means a person who forms his opinions for himself.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• England
• Erewhon: a fictional place
• Europe
• Israel
• Queensland

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Erewhon Revisited.

Preceded by Demons, and followed by The Torrents of Spring.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Samuel Butler (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Mythology › Sagas
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( B ) › Butler, Samuel
• Books › Gay & Lesbian › Literature & Fiction › Fiction › Gay
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Family Saga
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Internet Archive: Scan of first edition, Trubner & Co 1872

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