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About Samuel Butler
English novelist and critic
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic. He is best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and for The Way of All Flesh, a semi-autobiographical novel that has stayed in print since publication. Butler also wrote on Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art. He made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which are still consulted today.
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- “Directly overhead the Milky Way was as distinct as a highway across the sky. The constellations shown brillia…”Philip Caputo
- “It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech.…”Neal Asher
- “Arguments for preservation based on the beauty of wilderness are sometimes treated as if they were of little…”Peter Singer
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Books by Samuel Butler
Erewhon
1981
Erewhon Revisited
1910
The way of all flesh
2007
Erewhon / Erewhon revisited
1932