Erewhon (Penguin Classics)

Novels of truthful insight and sharp satire never go out of style and the brilliant Erewhon is no exception. Samuel Butler’s timeless novel tells the story of Higgs, an explorer who stumbles upon the land of Erewhon. The people of this place have banned machines, treat their criminals like sick people and treat their sick people like criminals. This strange society values unreason and hypothetics as the highest form of intellectual expression while firmly suppressing originality. With the Origin of Species as a major influence, Butler wrote Erewhon as a reply to the religious hypocrisy and social injustices of his day.