Erewhon: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Erewhon, credited to Samuel Butler, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Erewhon by Samuel Butler. Read by LibriVox volunteers. Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed in which part of the world Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country. Butler meant the title to be read as the word Nowhere backwards, even though the letters "h" and "w" are transposed. It is likely that he did this to protect himself from accusations of being unpatriotic, although Erewhon is obviously a satire of Victorian society. (summary from wikipedia) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Erewhon
• Author credits: Samuel Butler
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 8:00:07

Catalogue topics

• satire

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 00 - Introduction — 12:55
2. 01 - Waste Lands — 11:45
3. 02 - In the Wool-Shed — 8:31
4. 03 - Up the River — 10:24
5. 04 - The Saddle — 15:34
6. 05 - The River and the Range — 14:44
7. 06 - Into Erewhon — 15:31
8. 07 - First Impressions — 13:17
9. 08 - In Prison — 15:17
10. 09 - To The Metropolis — 19:43
11. 10 - Current Opinions — 19:21
12. 11 - Some Erewhonian Trials — 14:32
13. 12 - Malcontents — 18:36
14. 13 - The View of the Erewhonians Concerning Death — 17:32
15. 14 - Mahaina — 8:50
16. 15 - The Musical Banks — 27:19
17. 16 - Arowhena — 16:35
18. 17 - Ydgrun and the Ydgrunites — 14:23
19. 18 - Birth Formulae — 11:54
20. 19 -The World of the Unborn — 16:01
21. 20 - What they mean by it — 17:36
22. 21 - The Colleges of Unreason — 17:16
23. 22 - The Colleges of Unreason Continued — 20:35
24. 23 - The Book of the Machines — 12:14

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