Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later Both By The Original Discoverer Of The Country And By His Son By: Samuel Butler(4 December 1835 - 18 June 1902)ISBN13:9781540694171ISBN10:1540694178Author:Butler, Samuel (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both By The Original Discoverer Of The Country And By His Son (1901) Is A Satirical Novel By Samuel Butler, Forming A Belated Sequel To His Erewhon (1872) The Cambridge History Of English And American Literature Judges That It Has Less Of The Free Imaginative Play Of Its Predecessor But, In Sharp Brilliance Of Wit And Criticism, In Intellectual Unity And Coherence, It Surpasses Erewhon Erewhon, Set In A Thinly Disguised New Zealand, Ended With The Escape Of Its Unnamed Protagonist From The Native Erewhonians By Balloon In The Sequel, Narrated By His Son John, We Are Told That Our Hero's Name Is Higgs Higgs Returns To Erewhon And Meets His Former Lover Yram, Who Is Now The Mother Of His Son George He Discovers That He Is Now Worshipped As The Sunchild, His Escape Having Been Interpreted As An Ascension Into Heaven, And That A Church Of Sunchildism Has Sprung Up He Finds Himself In Danger From The Villainous Professors Hanky And Panky, Who Are Determined To Protect Sunchildism From Him With George's Help Higgs Escapes From Their Clutches And Returns To England The Swiftian Device Of Setting His Satire In A Fictional Culture Enabled Butler, As The Critic Elinor Shaffer Has Written, To Analyse The Phenomena Of Religion From Their Point Of Genesis, While Disclaiming All Responsibility For Their Uncanny Parallels To Certain Known Religions It Did Not However Make The Road To Publication Any Easier When Butler Submitted The Manuscript To The Respectable And Long-Established House Of Longman, Who Had In Recent Years Become His Regular Publishers, They Rejected It For Fear Of Offending Their High Church Clientele, Even When Butler Offered To Pay The Costs Himself On March 24, 1901 He Wrote To George Bernard Shaw, Conceding That The Book Was Far More Wicked Than Erewhon, And Asking For His Advice Shaw Replied Recommending His Own Publisher, Grant Richards, And Lost No Time Introducing Butler To Him The Book Duly Came Out Under The Grant Richards Imprint Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 - 18 June 1902) Was An Iconoclastic Victorian-Era English Author Who Published A Variety Of Works Two Of His Most Famous Pieces Are The Utopian Satire Erewhon And A Semi-Autobiographical Novel Published Posthumously, The Way Of All Flesh He Is Also Known For Examining Christian Orthodoxy, Substantive Studies Of Evolutionary Thought, Studies Of Italian Art, And Works Of Literary History And Criticism Butler Made Prose Translations Of The Iliad And Odyssey, Which Remain In Use To This Day Butler Was Born On 4 December 1835 At The Rectory In The Village Of Langar, Near Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England, To The Rev Thomas Butler, Son Of Dr Samuel Butler, Then Headmaster Of Shrewsbury School And Later Bishop Of Lichfield Dr Butler Was The Son Of A Tradesman And Descended From A Line Of Yeomen, But His Scholarly Aptitude Being Recognised At Young Age, Was Sent To Rugby And Cambridge, Where He Distinguished Himself And Launched His Successful Career His Only Son Thomas Wished To Go Into The Navy, But Succumbed To Paternal Pressure And Entered The Church, In Which He Led A Wholly Undistinguished Career, All The More So In Contrast With His Father's It Has Been Suggested That This Family Dynamic Had Some Impact On Samuel, Insofar As It Created The Oppressive Home Environment (Chronicled In The Way Of All Flesh) Which Formed His Approach To The World Thomas Butler, States One Critic, To Make Up For Having Been A Servile Son, Became A Bullying Father In Any Event, Samuel Butler's Relationship With His Parents, And Especially With His Father, Was Largely Antagonistic His Education Began At Home And Included Frequent Beatings, As Was Not Uncommon At The Time Samuel, However, Found His Parents Particularly Brutal And Stupid By Nature,And Their Relationship To Him Never Progressed Beyond The Adversarial Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2016-11-28Weight:0.66 lbsDimensions:0.31'' H x 10'' L x 8'' WNumber of Pages:144Language:English
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Book Title: Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son. by:Samuel Butler(4 December 1835 - 18 June 1902) Was an Iconoclastic Victorian-Era English Author Who Published a Variety of Works : Satire (World's Classic's)
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
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Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.3 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Item Length: 10 in
Author: Samuel Butler
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
