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Which Samuel wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

a. Butler
b. Taylor Coleridge
c. Johnson
d. Beckett
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Samuel Butler

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born

December 04, 1835

died

June 18, 1902

gender

male

place of birth

Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England, The United Kingdom

genre

Literature & Fiction

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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.

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avg rating: 3.54 | 822 ratings | 113 reviews | 55 distinct works

	The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler avg rating 3.47 — 300 ratings — published 1903 61 editions	my rating:
	Erewhon by Samuel Butler avg rating 3.33 — 142 ratings — published 1872 39 editions	my rating:
	Homer: The Iliad by Samuel Butler (Translator) avg rating 3.98 — 47 ratings — published 1923 4 editions	my rating:
	Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler avg rating 3.55 — 11 ratings — published 1923 6 editions	my rating:
	Great Books of the Western World (Vol 4 - The Iliad of Homer; The Odyssey) by Samuel Butler avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1952	my rating:
	Hudibras by Samuel Butler avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 1973 6 editions	my rating:
	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 by Samuel Butler avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2004 4 editions	my rating:
	Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 1959 2 editions	my rating:
	The Note Books Of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1979 5 editions	my rating:
	The Way of All Flesh Volume 1 of 2: [EasyRead Comfort Edition] by Samuel Butler avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2007 10 editions	my rating:

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

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"Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
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