Samuel Butler
English novelist and critic (1835–1902)
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Victorian novelist who took aim at religion and Darwin with Erewhon and later skewered his own upbringing in The Way of All Flesh. His Homer translations are still read; his satirical bite never dulled.
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Samuel Butler 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. 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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