Erewhon - Large Print Author:Samuel Butler There is a land where illness, ugliness and bad luck are punishable crimes, whereas boys are taught the impractical in a College of Unreason; where unusable wealth is stored in Musical Banks, and perhaps the most unfortunate of all- the tedious- are sent to a Hospital for Incurable Bores. — The land is Erewhon, an anagram of Nowhere and the scene... more » of a remarkable satire by Samuel Butler. EREWHON (1872) begins as an adventure story. A young sheep famer strikes out across unexplored mountains in a colony much like New Zealand. The way is hard, the suspense gripping. He is then captured by the ERewhonians- and we are suddenly in an equally adventurous world of ideas, where absurd and hypocritical institutions resembling those of Butler's own Victorian Age are subjected to his magnificent scorn. Yet readers will find EREWHON a most original work, one that transcends its times and prophesies a world somewhat like today's. Indeed, in its challenge to much modern liberal thought, it is perhaps even more stimulating that ever before.« less