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Dramatizes the hidden motivations and activities of censors and anti-censors, the problems of permissiveness and restraint, and the moral dilemmas facing all of us today.

First published more than two decades ago, this bestselling novel features the sort of storytelling that Robbins is known and admired for: labyrinthine plots, outrageous characters, sizzling dialogue, and exotic locations.

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Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events ...

Erewhon (an anagram for "nowhere") is a faraway land where sickness is a punishable crime, criminals receive compassionate medical treatment, and machines are banned (for fear they'll evolve and become the masters of man).

Inspired by Samuel Butler's years in colonial New Zealand and by his reading of Darwin's Origin of Species, Erewhon (1872) is a highly original, irreverent and humorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy and the unthinking ...

Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) was a writer of breathtaking range and learning, whose works demonstrate a warm and humorous view of human nature.