Samuel Butler





Samuel Butler

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

died
June 18, 1902

gender
male

genre


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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: 3.56 · 4,977 ratings · 392 reviews · 73 distinct works · Similar authors
The Way of All Flesh
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 2,704 ratings — published 1903 — 119 editions
Erewhon
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 1,216 ratings — published 1872 — 80 editions
Erewhon Revisited
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1901 — 36 editions
Erewhon, Erewhon Revisited
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1901 — 5 editions
The Iliad
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2009
The Note Books of Samuel Bu...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1984 — 14 editions
The Odyssey
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 450,943 ratings — published -750 — 867 editions
The Authoress of the Odyssey
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1897 — 7 editions
The Way of All Flesh Volume 1
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007
The Odyssey Rendered into E...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
Samuel Butler

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