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  <name><![CDATA[Samuel Butler]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;Samuel Butler&lt;/b&gt; 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.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England</hometown>  <born_at>12/04/1835</born_at>  <died_at>06/18/1902</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Way of All Flesh]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Erewhon]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Homer: The Iliad]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Erewhon Revisited]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Great Books of the Western World (Vol 4 - The Iliad of Homer; The Odyssey)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hudibras]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Authoress of the Odyssey: Where and When She Wrote, Who She Was and the Use She Made of the Iliad, and How the Poem Grew Under Her Hands]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited]]></title>
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  <published>1959</published>  
  
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        <book id="419098">
  <title><![CDATA[The Note Books Of Samuel Butler]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Way of All Flesh Volume 1 of 2: [EasyRead Comfort Edition]]]></title>
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