Erewhon
by Samuel Butler
The young traveler, who will earn his fortune in a distant country, explores the remote and beautiful lands of Eruchon and buys a house among his unusually beautiful compatriots. But its visitors soon discover that this seemingly ideal community has its drawbacks – where crime is treated dismissive as a treatable disease, while disease, poverty and misfortune are severely punished, and all cars are superstitious after a bizarre prophecy. Will he be able to survive in a world where morality is upside down? Butler satirically describes utopian society, using the 'Eruchon' civilization (an anagram for 'nowhere') to satirize beliefs that were popular in England at the time. Butler wrote a sequel to the novel, Eruchon revised.
