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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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- “The evolution theory is one of the dumbest and most dangerous religion in history of humanity.”Kent Hovind
- “Who that has ever visited the borders of this classic sea, has not felt at the first sight of its waters a gl…”Edward Forbes
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- “I'm far from being a consummate artist. I mean, this is just my first album, and the work is very new. I'm ju…”Jeff Buckley
- “Baraccus had told her that while a number of wizards could make things, the same as the ungifted could make t…”Terry Goodkind
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Books by Samuel Butler
Erewhon
1981
Erewhon Revisited
1910
The way of all flesh
2007
Erewhon / Erewhon revisited
1932