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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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- “I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world…”Bill Nye
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- “We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known wh…”Richard Dawkins
Explore Art
- “I don't think anybody becomes an actor to serve theatre or to serve art anywhere. We all become actors becaus…”Naseeruddin Shah
- “I mean, I used to think of fashion design as a kind of art project, all creativity and passion. I wasn't thin…”Whitney Port
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Books by Samuel Butler
Erewhon
1981
Erewhon Revisited
1910
The way of all flesh
2007
Erewhon / Erewhon revisited
1932