LeziBook
Cover of Erewhon Revisited

Erewhon Revisited

Samuel Butler

Novelsabout 9 h 15 min of listening

A traveler returns to the country of Erewhon to find out what has happened in the twenty years since he last visited.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Epigraph
  3. Author’s Preface
  4. Erewhon Revisited
  5. I: Ups and Downs of Fortune—My Father Starts for Erewhon
  6. II: To the Foot of the Pass Into Erewhon
  7. III: My Father While Camping Is Accosted by Professors Hanky and Panky
  8. IV: My Father Overhears More of Hanky and Panky’s Conversation
  9. V: My Father Meets a Son, of Whose Existence He Was Ignorant; and Strikes a Bargain with Him
  10. VI: Further Conversation Between Father and Son—The Professors’ Hoard
  11. VII: Signs of the New Order of Things Catch My Father’s Eye on Every Side
  12. VIII: Yram, Now Mayoress, Gives a Dinner-Party, in the Course of Which She Is Disquieted by What She Learns from Professor Hanky: She Sends for Her Son George and Questions Him
Show all 36 chapters
  1. IX: Interview Between Yram and Her Son
  2. X: My Father, Fearing Recognition at Sunch’ston, Betakes Himself to the Neighbouring Town of Fairmead
  3. XI: President Gurgoyle’s Pamphlet “On the Physics of Vicarious Existence”
  4. XII: George Fails to Find My Father, Whereon Yram Cautions the Professors
  5. XIII: A Visit to the Provincial Deformatory at Fairmead
  6. XIV: My Father Makes the Acquaintance of Mr. Balmy, and Walks with Him Next Day to Sunch’ston
  7. XV: The Temple Is Dedicated to My Father, and Certain Extracts Are Read from His Supposed Sayings
  8. XVI: Professor Hanky Preaches a Sermon, in the Course of Which My Father Declares Himself to Be the Sunchild
  9. XVII: George Takes His Father to Prison, and There Obtains Some Useful Information
  10. XVIII: Yram Invites Dr. Downie and Mrs. Humdrum to Luncheon—A Passage at Arms Between Her and Hanky Is Amicably Arranged
  11. XIX: A Council Is Held at the Mayor’s, in the Course of Which George Turns the Tables on the Professors
  12. XX: Mrs. Humdrum and Dr. Downie Propose a Compromise, Which, After an Amendment by George, Is Carried Nem. Con.
  13. XXI: Yram, on Getting Rid of Her Guests, Goes to the Prison to See My Father
  14. XXII: Mainly Occupied with a Veracious Extract from a Sunch’stonian Journal
  15. XXIII: My Father Is Escorted to the Mayor’s House, and Is Introduced to a Future Daughter-in-Law
  16. XXIV: After Dinner, Dr. Downie and the Professors Would Be Glad to Know What Is to Be Done About Sunchildism
  17. XXV: George Escorts My Father to the Statues; The Two Then Part
  18. XXVI: My Father Reaches Home, and Dies Not Long Afterwards
  19. XXVII: I Meet My Brother George at the Statues, on the Top of the Pass Into Erewhon
  20. XXVIII: George and I Spend a Few Hours Together at the Statues, and Then Part—I Reach Home—Postscript
  21. Endnotes
  22. List of Illustrations
  23. Colophon
  24. Uncopyright

Listen free in LeziBook

Get LeziBook, open the Store, find “Erewhon Revisited” and tap Listen now. The book lands in your library and the app starts reading aloud.

Source: Standard Ebooks. CC0 1.0 (Standard Ebooks edition); the text is in the public domain

More by this author