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Samuel Butler

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Butler portraitSAMUEL BUTLER portrait by Charles Gogin
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Born
Langar, Nottinghamshire, England, 1835

Died
London, England, 1902

Nationality
English

Publications
Novels, essays, translations

Genres
Literary, satire, romance, philosophy

Writing language
English

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Literature

Erewhon (1872)

The Way of All Flesh (1903)

Novels

Erewhon (1872)

The Way of All Flesh (1903)

British Literature

Erewhon (1872)

The Way of All Flesh (1903)

Philosophical Fiction

Erewhon (1872)

Works published in book form

First Year in Canterbury Settlement, letters, 1863

Erewhon, novel, 1972

The Fair Haven, novel, 1973

Life and Habit, science, 1878

Evolution, Old and New, science, 1879

Unconscious Memory, science, 1880

Luck or Cunning as the Main Means of Organic Modification?, science, 1887

Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino, art, 1888

Ex Voto: An Account of the Sacred Monte, art, 1888

The Authoress of the Odyssey, criticism, 1897

Iliad, translation, 1898

Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered, criticism, 1899

The Odyssey, translation, 1900

Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, novel, 1901

The Way of All Flesh, novel, 1903

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, notes, 1912

 

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