Erewhon

Erewhon, by Samuel Butler
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Title: Erewhon Author: Samuel Butler Release Date: March 20, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1906]
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Transcribed from the 1910 A. C. Fifield (revised) edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
EREWHON, OR OVER THE RANGE
“του yαρ ειναι δοκουντος αyαθου χαριν παντα πραττουσι παντες.”—ARIST. Pol. “There is no action save upon a balance of considerations.” —Paraphrase.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
The Author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short—thus, Ĕ-rĕ-whŏn.
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
Having been enabled by the kindness of the public to get through an unusually large edition of “Erewhon” in a very short time, I have taken the opportunity of a second edition to make some necessary corrections, and to add a few passages where it struck me that they would be appropriately introduced; the passages are few, and it is my fixed intention never to touch the work again. I may perhaps be allowed to say a word or two here in reference to “The Coming Race,” to the success of which book “Erewhon” ...