# Erewhon

**Author(s):** Samuel Butler
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
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**Genres:** literary-fiction, history, biography, literary-classics, satire
**Pages:** 138
**Publisher:** CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
**Published:** Sun Jan 01 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781974171637
**ISBN-10:** 1974171639
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/erewhon

## Description

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. The starting chapters detailing the discovery of Erewhon were based on Butler's experiences in New Zealand as a young man. Butler was possibly the first to write about the idea that machines might one day develop consciousness through the process of Darwinian Selection.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
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