Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic who lived from 1835 to 1902 and is best known for his satirical works that challenged Victorian ideas about religion, science, and society. His novels, particularly *Erewhon* and *The Way of All Flesh*, remain influential for their wit and their exploration of themes that were controversial in his time.
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- 1835-12-04
- Died
- 1902-06-18
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- Erewhon; or, Over the range
- The note-books of Samuel Butler ...
- The humour of Homer, and other essays
- Selections from The note-books of Samuel Butler
- Selections from previous works with remarks on Mr. G.J. Romanes' "Mental evolution in animals" and a psalm of Montreal
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Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh). Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted.
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1835 births1902 deaths19th-century English novelists19th-century New Zealand farmersAlumni of St John's College, CambridgeEnglish male novelistsEnglish satirical novelistsEnglish science fiction writersLamarckismNovelists from LondonPeople educated at Shrewsbury SchoolPeople from Bingham, Nottinghamshire