Erewhon Author:Samuel Butler 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 country o simple, straightforward people that was created b Samuel Butler to serve as a foil fr his attack on "modern" life and thought. With wit and imag... more »ination 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 Afterwaord to this Signet Classic edition, Erewhon is the forst modern utopian romance, a novel which directly anticipates Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984.« less