V: The River and the Range

Erewhon Authored by Samuel Butler Narrated by Archie 0:00 V: The River and the Range 16:04 VI: Into Erewhon #samuelbutler #erewhon — Listen on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEBGLFNsBM Find your next great read with Google Play Books. Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you. Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android — BOOK DESCRIPTION In a desire for better sheep–farming land on an unnamed British colony, Higgs decides to traverse the distant mountain range. On the other side he discovers not the empty rolling plains of his imagination but an entirely new civilization: the land of Erewhon. Inducted into the ways of their culture, he attempts to transcribe as best he can their thoughts on birth, death, machines, the production of food, their financial system, and many more subjects that on first glance seem absurd to the narrator but often end up revealing absurdity in his own thinking. Erewhon was extremely well received on its initial (and anonymous) publication, with its satirical commentary on contemporary Victorian attitudes ensuring its commercial success. Samuel Butler incorporated into the novel his philosophical ideas, including chapters founded on his interest in Darwinian evolution theory, and on the potential rise in artificial consciousness. George Orwell held the novel in high regard, and the Erewhonian philosophy on the danger of machines even made its way into Frank Herbert’s Dune series as the “Butlerian jihad.” This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks. — AUDIOBOOK DETAILS Language: English Publisher: Google Play Public Domain Published on: August 15, 2020 Duration: 7 hr, 37 min Genres: Fiction / Classics