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If the reader will excuse me, I will say nothing of my antecedents, nor of the circumstances which led me to leave my native country; the narrative would be tedious to him and painful to myself. Suffice it, that when I left home it was with the intention of going to some new colony, and either finding, or even perhaps purchasing, waste crown land suitable for cattle or sheep farming, by which means I thought that I could better my fortunes more rapidly than in England. It will be seen that I did not succeed in my design, and that however much I may have met with that was new and strange, I have been unable to reap any pecuniary advantage. It is true, I imagine myself to have made a discovery which, if I can be the first to profit by it, will bring me a recompense beyond all money computation, and secure me a position such as has not been attained by more than some fifteen or sixteen persons, since the creation of the universe. But to this end I must possess myself of a considerable sum of money: neither do I know how to get it, except by interesting the public in my story, and inducing the charitable to come forward and assist me. With this hope I now publish my adventures; but I do so with great reluctance, for I fear that my story will be doubted unless I tell the whole of it; and yet I dare not do so, lest others with more means than mine should get the start of me. I prefer the risk of being doubted to that of being anticipated, and have therefore concealed my destination on leaving England, as also the point from which I began my more serious and difficult journey.

Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903. Both have remained in print ever since. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted today. He was also an artist.

Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) was a Victorian novelist who wrote in many genres. The Way of All Flesh and Erewhon are his most famous novels. Besides fiction Butler also wrote on evolution, Christian orthodoxy, Italian art, literary history and translated the Illiad and The Odyssey. Erewhon is a utopian satire of Victorian England published in 1872. The title is the name of a fictional country and it is also the word nowhere spelled backwards. The beginning of the book deals with the discovery of Erewhon, which is based on Butlers time in New Zealand where he worked on a sheep ranch for four years. The novel satirizes religion, anthropocentrism, and criminal punishment.

Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novella, issued having an unknown author in 1872. Erewhon is rather a country's name, apparently explored by the hero. In the novella, it is not shown in which portion of the country Erewhon is, although it is evident that it is a made up country. Samuel presupposed Erewhon to be read backwards as Nowhere, but h and w are displaced. It is liable that he did this to defend himself from allegations of being disloyal, though Erewhon is ostensibly a humor of Victorian Era.Samuel Butler was the iconoclastic British novelist of the Utopian humorous story Erewhon and the partly life story of Bildungsroman The Way of All Flesh, printed after his death in 1903. Both have continued to be in publication from then on. In other researches, he scrutinized Christian dogma, transmutative point of view, and Italian creativity, and created literary interpretations of the Iliad and Odyssey that remained considered at present times. He was also a craftsman.Samuel progressed a philosophy that the Odyssey begun from the writings of a Sicilian lass, and that the backdrops of the verse paralleled the shores of Sicily - particularly the land of Trapani - and its adjoining islets. He defined the proof for this philosophy in his The Authoress of the Odyssey and in the prologue and afterthoughts to his literary interpretation of the Odyssey. Robert Graves expounded on this proposition in his book, Homer's Daughter. In a discussion with the title, The Humour of Homer, addressed at The Working Men's College in London, Samuel debated that Homer's deities in the Iliad are likened to men although unprincipled and that the poet "must have desired his listeners not to take them seriously." Samuel interpreted the Iliad. His other crafts contain Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered, a premise that Shakespeare's sonnets, if reorganized, narrate a tale of a homophile relationship.

After a series of near-mishaps, a traveler stumbles into a place utterly unknown to him -- only to be jailed: for in this odd place being penniless is tantamount to criminality. Slowly learning the language and gaining the confidence of his hosts, he comes to know their strange ways and their stranger ideas and institutions -- including the Hospital for Incurable Bores, the College of Unreason -- and the Museum of Old Machines!

In the strange country of Erewhon, sick people are imprisoned while criminals are treated for sickness. Machines are are considered too dangerous to use. And children must choose whether or not to be born. This subtle satire of Victorian society is still as thought-provoking and entertaining as when it was first written. A publication of Boomer Books, especially designed and typeset for easy reading.

Erewhon is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed where Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country. Butler meant the title to be read as the word Nowhere backwards, even though the letters "h" and "w" are transposed, therefore Erewhon is an anagram of nowhere. The book is a satire on Victorian society. The first few chapters of the novel dealing with the discovery of Erewhon are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years (1860–1864), and explored parts of the interior of the South Island. Sometimes compared to Gulliver's Travels (1726), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time.