Samuel Butler

• Aug-1960
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'I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.' With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel B...

• Dec-1970
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When the traveller Higgs discovers the remote land of Erewhon, he finds himself amongst a strange race who have forbidden the use of machines, who suppress originality and uphold the study of unreason and hypothetics.

As fresh and original...

• Sep-2004
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Samuel Butler's The Humour of Homer and Other Essays (1904) is a biographical sketch that provides an insight into his study of Odyssey and Iliad and his attitude towards the Homeric poems. The other essays throw light on a variety of topics, ranging...

• Feb-2006
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'The freest, most original and most varied thinker of his generation.. Neither Erewhon nor The Way of All Flesh, but the posthumous work entitled Note Books will stand, in our judgment, as the decisive contribution of Samuel Butler to the thought of ...

• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction
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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe ...

• Feb-2009
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Samuel Butler's Ex Voto (1888) is an account of the author's visit of Sacro Monte at Varallo-Sesia. He describes the Italian landscape as well as the art, history and architecture of the places he visits. Butler compares these sacred places to Jerusa...

• Jul-2009
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Samuel Butler's prose translation of the ancient Greek epic poem The Iliad into English was published in 1898. It takes place at the end of a 10-year war and tells how Achilles's wrath brought about the fall of Troy....

• Oct-2010
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• Feb-2011
• / General Fiction
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Erewhon, set in a thinly disguised New Zealand, ended with the escape of its protagonist from the native Erewhonians by balloon. In the sequel, narrated by his son John. Higgs returns to Erewhon and meets his former lover Yram, who is now the mother ...

• Mar-2012
• / General Fiction
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Essays on Life, Art and Science is a collection of essays and lectures by Samuel Butler which were mostly published during 1890 in The Universal Review. The collection contains a variety of essays and lectures some of which deal with his own theories...

• Dec-2014
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• Dec-2014
• / General Fiction
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I shall perhaps best promote the acceptance of the two main points on which I have been insisting for some years past, I mean, the substantial identity between heredity and memory, and the reintroduction of design into organic development, by treatin...

• Mar-2015
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" ...]our own thinkers. He writes: - "There are here some words, however, which require careful definition. And first the word purpose. A thing serves a purpose when it is adapted for some end; thus a corkscrew is adapted to the end of extracting cor...

• May-2015
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In Samuel Butler's Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (1881), the author visits the Alps and sacred places of Northern Italy. Sacri Monti is the main focus of interest for the writer, and he pays careful attention to the art, arch...

• / Literary
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Cambridge Pieces (1858) is a collection of essays and poetry by Samuel Butler written during his years at Cambridge. They were initially published in the Eagle Magazine. The collection contains a variety of essays on different subjects, including his...

• / General Fiction
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As the following dialogue embodies the earliest fruits of Butler's study of the works of Charles Darwin, with whose name his own was destined in later years to be so closely connected, and thus possesses an interest apart from its intrinsic merit, a ...

• / General Fiction
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Purporting to be the work of "the late John Pickard Owen" (with a memoir by his brother), this 1873 satire set out to defend Christianity, but was written so subtly, that many readers, critics, and religious alike failed to recognize it as satir...

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Butler’s first book, published in 1863, is a lively compilation of letters that he sent to his family while working as a sheep farmer in New Zealand for several years. Financed and edited into book form by Butler’s father, it is a spirited accoun...

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God the Known and God the Unknown is a philosophical work by Samuel Butler that was first published serially in The Examiner in 1879. Butler discusses many topics, including spirituality, the existence of God, pantheism, and Orthodox theism....

• / Literary
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

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Life and Habit (1878) is a profound study of evolution by Samuel Butler. Originally a supporter of Darwin's concept of evolution, Butler ultimately became a severe critic of the theory of natural selection....

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Samuel Butler's Unconscious Memory (1880) contains the author's ideas about evolution. Containing his correspondences with Charles Darwin, it also contains background information about his previous works like Evolution: Old and New. Butler also analy...