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Erewhon; Or, Over the Range
A stranger enters a society that turns familiar beliefs upside down. Within Samuel Butler’s wide-ranging satire, “The Book of the Machines” asks whether machines could develop consciousness and eventually surpass their makers.
- Chapters
- 29
- Language
- English
- First published
- 1872
About 6 hr 12 min of reading
Contents
29 chapters- 01WASTE LANDS10 min
- 02IN THE WOOL-SHED8 min
- 03UP THE RIVER9 min
- 04THE SADDLE13 min
- 05THE RIVER AND THE RANGE14 min
- 06INTO EREWHON14 min
- 07FIRST IMPRESSIONS12 min
- 08IN PRISON13 min
- 09TO THE METROPOLIS17 min
- 10CURRENT OPINIONS17 min
- 11SOME EREWHONIAN TRIALS12 min
- 12MALCONTENTS13 min
- 13THE VIEWS OF THE EREWHONIANS CONCERNING DEATH12 min
- 14MAHAINA7 min
- 15THE MUSICAL BANKS20 min
- 16AROWHENA13 min
- 17YDGRUN AND THE YDGRUNITES11 min
- 18BIRTH FORMULAE9 min
- 19THE WORLD OF THE UNBORN13 min
- 20WHAT THEY MEAN BY IT12 min
- 21THE COLLEGES OF UNREASON13 min
- 22THE COLLEGES OF UNREASON—Continued15 min
- 23THE BOOK OF THE MACHINES11 min
- 24THE MACHINES—continued15 min
- 25THE MACHINES—concluded22 min
- 26THE VIEWS OF AN EREWHONIAN PROPHET CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF ANIMALS13 min
- 27THE VIEWS OF AN EREWHONIAN PHILOSOPHER CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF VEGETABLES14 min
- 28ESCAPE18 min
- 29CONCLUSION13 min
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