Erewhon; or, Over the Range is a sharp and playful satire that invites readers into a world both strange and unsettlingly familiar. When an unnamed traveler crosses a remote mountain range, he discovers Erewhon—a society governed by inverted logic, where illness is treated as a crime, criminals are pitied as victims, and machines are feared as a threat to humanity’s future. Through wit, irony, and philosophical depth, Samuel Butler challenges Victorian beliefs about morality, progress, religion, ...