- Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, Utopian fiction, Satirical fiction
Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872. In this satire of Victorian society, the main character Higgs discovers an unknown country, the seeming utopia called Erewhon, Nowhere backwards with the "h" and "w" transposed.
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- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Samuel Butler
- First published
- 1700
- Pages
- 241
- Publisher
- A.C. Field, IndyPublish.com, ReadHowYouWant.com
- Editions
- 338
- Language
- Dutch, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781534605343
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