Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was an iconoclastic English author of the satirical novel "Erewhon" and the influential semi-autobiographical "The Way of All Flesh." He was also an artist, critic, and scientist whose translations remain valued.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a multifaceted English author, known for his satirical novel "Erewhon" (1872) and the semi-autobiographical "The Way of All Flesh" (1903). He also worked as a painter, art critic, and amateur scientist, and his translations of Homer are still consulted.
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| Back | 1835-1902 novelist, satirical poet, painter, art critic, amateur scientist and philosopher a successful sheep-farmer Fair Haven (1873), a mock defence of miracles, whose satire was so veiled that some Orthodox readers missed the joke entirely. he was entitled as 'incarnate bachelor Erewhom Revisited 1899; Butler's habits of obsessively revisiting his past a reworking his literary materials and a sequel to Erewhom 1872 The Way Of The Flesh 1903; his most influential work , semi autobiographical novel Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903. Both have remained in print ever since. 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 today. He was also an artist. |
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