Cover of Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son by Samuel Butler

Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son by Samuel Butler

Twenty years after Higgs escaped Erewhon by balloon with his bride, he returns to find that his 'miraculous' ascent into the heavens has spawned a whole new religion in his name.

First published 1901 1900s English Social SFUtopia

Samuel Butler's 1901 sequel to his classic 'Erewhon' is a sharp satire on the birth of religions and the making of myths. Witty, incisive, thought-provoking. Read it for a biting utopian satire about what happens when an ordinary man is remembered as a god.

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Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.
Reading it
4 hr 46 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

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