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The revised edition of Erewhon names Samuel Butler as author, and its preface, signed by him, speaks of Erewhon as his own work. Copy claim link
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Date 1872 · publication Scope and limits The 1872 printing was published anonymously; the credit comes from the revised edition of 1901, read in a Project Gutenberg e-text that names no source printing. It does not establish that the 1872 and 1901 texts are the same.
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Erewhon, or Over the Range (revised edition, with the prefaces of 1872 and 1901) ↗ Project Gutenberg (e-text 1906) · 1901
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Source excerpt “by Samuel Butler” Location in source Title page of the e-text
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Source details and check notes Authors Samuel Butler Version Project Gutenberg e-text 1906 (released 1999, updated 2025) of the revised edition; it does not name its source printing. Retrieved 2026-10-06; no printed 1901 copy was compared. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Samuel Butler, Erewhon (revised edition, 1901), Project Gutenberg e-text 1906. Reuse Public domain (published 1872 and 1901; the author died in 1902).. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each) under Selekoa’s quotation policy. Public-domain text. Check notes Credited name checked by an automated research assistant on 2026-10-27 in a direct retrieval and checked by a reviewer from a different model family on 2026-10-27. Human editorial review is pending. primary source Supports the claim
Erewhon, or Over the Range (revised edition, with the prefaces of 1872 and 1901) ↗ Project Gutenberg (e-text 1906) · 1901
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Source excerpt “Erewhon” took something like ten years in writing” Location in source Preface to the Revised Edition, last paragraph, before the signature “SAMUEL BUTLER.”
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Source details and check notes Authors Samuel Butler Version Project Gutenberg e-text 1906 (released 1999, updated 2025) of the revised edition; it does not name its source printing. Retrieved 2026-10-06; no printed 1901 copy was compared. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Samuel Butler, Erewhon (revised edition, 1901), Project Gutenberg e-text 1906. Reuse Public domain (published 1872 and 1901; the author died in 1902).. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each) under Selekoa’s quotation policy. Public-domain text. Check notes Credited name checked by an automated research assistant on 2026-10-27 in a direct retrieval and checked by a reviewer from a different model family on 2026-10-27. Human editorial review is pending. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. Authorship as credited in the document. Does not imply sole authorship.
Date. Year of the anonymous first edition. The credit is in the revised edition, whose preface is dated 1901-08-07.
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