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Rapidly it becomes clear that T.T.'s bank, like the Musical Bank in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, deals not only in money but in moral imponderables. For the Soviet banker, unbalanced books are a small matter, but the failure to balance the books of the sacred Marx-Lenin-Stalin writings may prove fatal. The action dissolves in a mirage of Marxist motivation: whom to bribe with what is the problem. Thus, to buy silence, the television set goes to a despised subordinate, a piano to someone else, a raccoon coat to a third. Simochka is saved...
...publishing firm of Chapman & Hall, promptly turned down one of history's biggest bestsellers, Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne, His acceptance of such newcomers as Thomas Hardy and George Gissing never attained the fame of his rejection slips, which turned back Samuel Butler's Erewhon ("Will not do"), and Shaw's early novels, Cashel Byron's Profession and Immaturity...
Most novels about an imaginary world (e.g., Gulliver's Travels, Erewhon) have as their central character, or interpreter, a man who somehow strays out of the author's own times and finds himself in a world he never made. But Orwell, like...
Butler wrote 27 books. Only two are at -all well known today. One is Erewhon ("Nowhere" roughly spelled backwards), a brilliant fantasy about a world in which sickness is treated as a crime and crime as a sickness (as is coming to be the case today) and civilization rests upon two banks, one (financial) which men invest in but deprecate, the other (religious) which the)L praise to high Heaven but seldom invest in. The second survivor, Butler's only, real novel, The Way of All Flesh, is a unique period-study of Victorian home life...
Utopians as grave as Sir Thomas More, satirists as great as Jonathan Swift dealt with imaginary men and inventions. Samuel Butler (Erewhon), William Dean Howells (A Traveler from Altruria), H. G. Wells (The Empire of the Ants) and Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) also mixed science and moonshine for purposes of their...