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Samuel Satirical Erewhom Butler2 Novelist Poet Painter Art

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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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