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Erewhon

[ er-uh-hwon, -hwuhn, -won, -wuhn ]

noun

  1. a satirical novel (1872) by Samuel Butler.


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The myth above alluded to exists in Erewhon with changed names and considerable modifications.

If machinery is detrimental to biological fitness, the machine must be destroyed, as it was in Samuel Butler's "Erewhon."

She had not read Erewhon, of course, yet was vaguely aware she had done something wrong.

"Erewhon," however, a Utopian romance published in 1872, had by 1899 sold between three and four thousand copies.

My father glanced at it, and saw that it was exactly like the one he had worn on entering Erewhon nearly twenty years previously.

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