{"collection":"utopia","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/utopia/ere/index.htm","path":"utopia/ere/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/utopia/ere/index.htm","text":"| Erewhon by Samuel Butler [1872] | \nBased on his experiences in New Zealand, Samuel Butler wrote this account of a visit to a very peculiar utopian (dystopian, actually) society in the vein of Gullivers' Travels. This is not a blueprint for a better world but a means of satirizing the foibles of Victorian English society. Published anonymously in 1872, this book has influenced a number of successive authors, including G.B. Shaw, and a number of New Zealand utopian authors. Aldous Huxley cited Erewhon as a primary source of his own dystopia, Brave New World.","title":"Erewhon Index","type":"page"}