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1	Way of All Flesh more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist THE WAY OF ALL FLESH is a thinly disguised account of Butler's own Victorian childhood. Butler began the work in 1872; it was finally published in 1903, a year after his death. With irony and wit, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning the conventional family-history novel inside-out. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Erewhon more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist Samuel Butler claims to have spent 10 years writing his first novel, which emerged as a masterpiece of social and religious satire. The delay was partly due to the fact that it was composed on Sundays while the rest of Butler's weeks were devoted to what he felt at the time was his true calling: painting. Borrowing the landscape of New Zealand and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	One Act Plays more books like this by Samuel Moon (Editor), Thornton Wilder (Editor), William Butler Yeats (Editor) add to wishlist These eleven one-act plays present the major figures of the modern theatre in an art form that demands from the dramatist the best in vigor, intensity, and precision. They conduct the reader on a historical tour of the modern play, from the naturalism of Strindberg to the intellectual drama of Pirandello; from the lyrical drama of Saroyan to the ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART I.?CANTO III. THE ARGUMENT. The scattered rout return and rally. Surround the place; the knight does sally, And is made prisoner: then they seize Th' enchanted ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $13.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Iliad of Homer by Butler Samuel Butler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.87! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Authoress of the Odyssey: Where and When She Wrote, Who She Was, the Use She Made of the Iliad and How the Poem Grew Under Her Hands more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist An Early Attempt To Prove That A Woman Wrote The Odyssey. see all copies from $19.50! new only from $21.73! \| SVS
7	Erewhon revisited twenty years later more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a British writer strongly influenced by his New Zealand experiences. He is best known for his utopian satire Erewhon; or, Over the Range (1872) and his posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh (1903). He went up to his father's alma mater, St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1854. Following graduation from Cambridge, ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $14.85! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Erewhon & Erewhon Revisited more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist 1927. Butler's satirical novels revealed his long interest in Darwin's theories of biological evolution, though he had spent a great deal of time criticizing him. Some now find these books prophetic in their discussion about machines becoming intelligent and the extent to which humans would become dependent on them, as well as their increasingly ... see all copies from $2.95! first editions \| SVS
9	Luck, or Cunning as the Main Means of Organic Modification more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a British writer strongly influenced by his New Zealand experiences. He is best known for his utopian satire Erewhon; or, Over the Range (1872) and his posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh (1903). He went up to his father's alma mater, St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1854. Following graduation from Cambridge, ... see all copies from $11.44! new only from $11.44! \| SVS
10	Authoress of the Odyssey more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist Samuel Butler's theory - that the Odyssey was written by a who configured herself in the epic as the Phaeacian princess, Nausicaa - set him on a collision course with all the 'authordoxies' of the, patriarchal establishment of 'Oxbridge' scholarship. New introduction by Tim Whitmarsh. see all copies from $9.81! new only from $35.72! \| first editions
11 view cover	Homer - The Iliad and the Odyssey more books like this by Homer, Samuel Butler (Translator) add to wishlist The history of Homer and his works is lost in doubtful obscurity, as is the history of many of the first minds who have done honor to humanity because they rose amidst darkness. The majestic stream of his song, blessing and fertilizing, flows like a river through many lands and nations. The creations of genius always seem like miracles, because ... see all copies from $3.36! new only from $4.52! \| SVS
12	The Iliad of Homer: Rendered Into English Prose by Samuel Butler add to wishlist see all copies from $4.50! new only from $110.85! \| SVS
13 view cover	Erewhon or Over the Range more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist Samuel Butler claims to have spent 10 years writing his first novel, which emerged as a masterpiece of social and religious satire. The delay was partly due to the fact that it was composed on Sundays while the rest of Butler's weeks were devoted to what he felt at the time was his true calling: painting. Borrowing the landscape of New Zealand and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14	Characters more books like this by Samuel Butler, Charles W. Daves add to wishlist see all copies from $2.05! first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Erewhon Revisited more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist Samuel Butler (1835 1902) was a Victorian novelist who wrote in many genres. The Way of All Flesh and Erehhon are his most famous novels. Besides fiction Butler also wrote on evolution, Christian orthodoxy, Italian art, literary history and translated the Iliad and The Odyssey. Erewhon is a utopian satire of Victorian England published in 1872. ... see all copies from $3.58! new only from $10.62! \| SVS
16 view cover	Hudibras more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist Ah me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps! For though dame Fortune seem to smile And leer upon him for a while, She'll after shew him, in the nick Of all his glories, a dog-trick. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $15.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17	The Note Books of Samuel Butler: Volume I (1874-1883) by Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer add to wishlist 65.50 see all copies from $7.67! new only from $212.63! \| signed copies
18 view cover	Prose Observations more books like this by Samuel Butler, Hugh De Quehen (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $53.99! new only from $308.88! \| first editions
19 view cover	Note-Books of Samuel Butler more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) was a Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh. He also studied Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Clara Stillman wrote of ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $15.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Fair Haven more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ( MEMOIR. too much for him. The world itself was hollow, made up of shams and delusions, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. Truly a prosaic young gentleman ... see all copies from $9.90! new only from $9.90! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Life and Habit more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist 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 also wrote on a range of subjects from ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.44! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Shakespeare's Sonnets more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist see all copies from $28.00! new only from $62.17! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Essays on Life, Art and Science more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a British writer strongly influenced by his New Zealand experiences. He is best known for his utopian satire Erewhon; or, Over the Range (1872) and his posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh (1903). He went up to his father's alma mater, St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1854. Following graduation from Cambridge, ... see all copies from $3.04! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Humour of Homer and Other Essays more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a British writer strongly influenced by his New Zealand experiences. He is best known for his utopian satire Erewhon; or, Over the Range (1872) and his posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh (1903). He went up to his father's alma mater, St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1854. Following graduation from Cambridge, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.48! \| first editions \| SVS
25	A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist see all copies from $22.50!

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