Erewhon Author:Samuel Butler First published in 1872,this reprint is of the revised and expanded 1901 edition. Includes a foreword by Kingsley Amis, copyrighted 1960. — Back cover: Disease is a crime punishable by imprisonment. Machines are considered dangerous; they have been destroyed and banished from the land. . .This is the way of the world in Erewhon, the imaginary cou... more »ntry of simple, straightforward people that was created by Samuel Butler to serve as a foil for his attack on "modern" life and thought. With wit and imagination the master satirist lashed out at evolution, medicine, education, justice. And paradoxically he presented several sides of each issue in a many-sided tale of adventure, ideas, escape. As Kingsley Amis points out in his Afterword to this Signet Classic, EREWHON is the first modern Utopian romance, a novel which directly anticipates Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD and Orwell's 1984.« less