Erewhon Revisited: Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Higgs returns to Erewhon twenty years after escaping by balloon, and finds that his ascent has become a religion — Sunchildism — with temples, a priesthood, relics and a professional interest in his never coming back. Butler quarreled with his clergyman father, made money farming sheep in New Zealand, and spent the rest of his life attacking respectable opinion; this 1901 sequel is his coldest joke about how religions are actually made. Sixty mountain plates by painters including Caspar David Friedrich and Albert Bierstadt give the balloon ascent and the peaks around it the scale the satire demands.
Higgs returns to Erewhon twenty years after escaping by balloon, and finds that his ascent has become a religion — Sunchildism — with temples, a priesthood, relics and a professional interest in his never coming back. Butler quarreled with his clergyman father, made money farming sheep in New Zea...
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Samuel Butler (1835–1902) was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He spent his early adulthood as a sheep farmer in New Zealand before settling in London, where he produced his satirical works. He is the author of Erewhon (1872) and its sequel, Erewhon Revisited (1901).
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He spent his early adulthood as a sheep farmer in New Zealand before settling in London, where he produced his satirical works. He is the author of Erewhon (1872) and its sequel, Erewhon Revisited (1901).
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