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EVOLUTION OLD & NEW by BUTLER SAMUEL
Category: Classic Fiction
Evolution, Old & New By Samuel Butler
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Category: Fiction
Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a young traveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, and is given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. But their visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal community has its faults - here crime is treated indulge ...Show more
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Category: Fiction
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 today as when it was first published in 1872, Erewhon, inspired ...Show more
Erewhon by Samuel Butler; Mint Editions (Contribution by)
Category: Classics | Series: Mint Editions Ser.
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 of his son George. He discovers that he is now worship ...Show more
Erewhon, or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler
Category: Fiction | Series: New Zealand Classics Ser.
LIFE & HABIT by BUTLER SAMUEL
Category: Classic Fiction
William Bateson claimed at the Darwin Centenary in 1909 that Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was 'the most brilliant and by far the most interesting of Darwin's opponents, whose works are at length emerging from oblivion.' Best remembered today as the author of the novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh, he ...Show more
The Iliad - Slip-Cased Edition by Homer; Samuel Butler (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Arcturus Slipcased Classics Ser.
Beautiful hardback edition in slipcase with foil embossing making a wonderful gift.To this day Ancient Greek literature is considered one of the highest examples of culture and is the bedrock upon which much European and western culture and literature is built, rendering it continually culturally signif ...Show more
The Iliad & the Odyssey (Leather Bound) by Homer; Samuel Butler
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
The Iliad & The Odyssey Homer While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself. Homer's epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the fo ...Show more
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected'. Written with great humour, irony and honesty, "The Way of All Flesh" exploded perceptions of the Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Erne ...Show more
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: English Library
Samuel Butler was one of the Victorian era's greatest iconoclasts. Once, he said that after reading Darwin's The Origin of Species, that the theory of evolution had replaced Christianity for him. And this -- after Butler had originally studied for the clergy. Darwin also praised Butler for his clear un ...Show more