Erewhon
€ 17,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780140430578 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Samuel Butler |
| Editora | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 272 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,204 |
| Data de Publicação | 23/02/2006 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 16,89 |
| Imposto | € 1,01 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 17,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 2 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a young traveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon and is given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. But their visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal community has its faults - here crime is treated indulgently as a malady to be cured, while illness, poverty and misfortune are cruelly punished, and all machines have been superstitiously destroyed after a bizarre prophecy. Can he survive in a world where morality is turned upside down? Inspired by Samuel Butler''s years in colonial New Zealand and by his reading of Darwin''s Origin of Species, Erewhon (1872) is a highly original, irreverent and humorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy and the unthinking acceptance of beliefs.