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Erewhon; or, Over the range

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the Revised Edition

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2 In the woolshed

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5 The river and the range

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7 First impressions

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9 To the metropolis

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10 Current opinions

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11 Some Erewhonian trials

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13 The views of the Erewhonians concerning death

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15 The Musical Banks

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17 Ydgrun and the Ydgrunites

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18 Birth formulae

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19 The world of the unborn

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20 What they mean by it

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21 The Colleges of Unreason

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22 The Colleges of Unreason (continued)

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23 The Book of the Machines

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24 The Book of the Machines (continued)

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25 The Book of the Machines (concluded)

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26 The views of an Erewhonian prophet concerning the rights of animals

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27 The views of an Erewhonian philosopher concerning the rights of vegetables

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Preface to the First Edition

The author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short—thus, E-re-whon.