Samuel Butler





Samuel Butler

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born
December 04, 1835 in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England, The United Kingdom

died
June 18, 1902

gender
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Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh, his two best-known works, but also extending to examinations of Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey which remain in use to this day.


Average rating: 3.53 · 3,020 ratings · 297 reviews · 172 distinct works
The Way of All Flesh
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 1,520 ratings — published 1903 — 110 editions
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Erewhon
3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 756 ratings — published 1872 — 83 editions
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Erewhon Revisited
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1901 — 40 editions
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Erewhon, Erewhon Revisited
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings2 editions
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The Authoress of the Odyssey
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1897 — 14 editions
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1984 — 12 editions
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The Way of All Flesh Volume 1
2.75 of 5 stars 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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The Odyssey of Homer
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The Iliad of Homer
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More books by Samuel Butler…
“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
Samuel Butler

“The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.”
Samuel Butler

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
Samuel Butler

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