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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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- “When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.”Samuel Butler
- “To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”Samuel Butler
Death: more sayings
- “Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.”Edna Ferber
- “I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.”E.M. Forster
- “When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine,…”Rachel Vincent
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Books by Samuel Butler
Erewhon
1981
Erewhon Revisited
1910
The way of all flesh
2007
Erewhon / Erewhon revisited
1932