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Samuel Butler


Born
in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England
December 04, 1835

Died
June 18, 1902

Genre
Fiction, Classics


For the author of Hudibras, see Samuel Butler.

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.

See also: Samuel H. Butcher, Anglo-Irish classicist, who also undertook prose translations of Homer's works (in collaboration with Andrew Lang. ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 23,341 ratings · 2,119 reviews · 670 distinct works • Similar authors
The Way of All Flesh
3.61 avg rating — 9,684 ratings — published 1903 — 865 editions
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Erewhon (Erewhon, #1)
3.28 avg rating — 4,570 ratings — published 1872 — 155 editions
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Erewhon Revisited (Erewhon,...
3.43 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1901 — 255 editions
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Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited
3.36 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1862 — 47 editions
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Darwin Among The Machines
3.93 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1863 — 6 editions
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The Note Books Of Samuel Bu...
3.85 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1912
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The Authoress of the Odyssey
3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1897 — 88 editions
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Rânduiala firii
3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings — 2 editions
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God the Known and God the U...
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1917
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Unconscious Memory
3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1923 — 131 editions
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Erewhon Erewhon Revisited
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Quotes by Samuel Butler  (?)
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“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
― Samuel Butler
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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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“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income”
― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
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Polls

February 2025 Old School Classics Poll

Meditation by Franz Kafka, 1912, 80 pp
 
  58 votes, 32.4%

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, 1913, 159 pp
 
  38 votes, 21.2%

 
  30 votes, 16.8%

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1900, 455 pp
 
  27 votes, 15.1%

The Satyricon by Petronius, 60, 272 pp
 
  13 votes, 7.3%

 
  13 votes, 7.3%

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