Erewhon Revisited - Couverture souple

Butler, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1617206164 ISBN 13 : 9781617206160

Editeur : SMK Books, 2015

Synopsis

Erewhon, set in a thinly disguised New Zealand, ended with the escape of its protagonist from the native Erewhonians by balloon. In the sequel, narrated by his son John. Higgs returns to Erewhon and meets his former lover Yram, who is now the mother of his son George. He discovers that he is now worshipped as "the Sunchild". He finds himself in danger from the villainous Professors Hanky and Panky, who are determined to protect Sunchildism from him. With George's help Higgs escapes from their clutches and returns to England.

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À propos de l'auteur

Samuel Butler was an English novelist, essayist, critic, translator, and intellectual provocateur whose work ranged across fiction, satire, theology, evolutionary theory, art criticism, and classical literature. Born in 1835, Butler was educated at Cambridge and spent several formative years in New Zealand before returning to England and establishing himself as one of the most original independent writers of the late Victorian period. His fiction often used irony, inversion, and speculative settings to expose the contradictions of respectable society, organised religion, inherited doctrine, and unexamined moral convention.Butler is best remembered for Erewhon, his satirical novel of an imaginary country whose customs reverse many assumptions of Victorian life, and for The Way of All Flesh, his posthumously published critique of family, religion, and social conformity. In Erewhon Revisited, he returned to his most famous fictional world with a more direct attack on institutional religion and the making of public myth. His work remains important to readers of Victorian literature, satire, philosophical fiction, early speculative fiction, utopian fiction, and the tradition of dissenting English prose.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SMK Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1617206164
• ISBN 13: 9781617206160
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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