The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
New York: Dutton, 1926.
Price: $19.50
Shrewsbury. Very good. Ex-library copy that has been re-bound. 1 of 375 copies sold in the U.S.
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Samuel Butler
birth name: Samuel Butler
born: 12/4/1835
died: 6/18/1902
Biography
English novelist, essayist, and critic whose satire Erewhon (1872) foreshadowed the collapse of the VIctorian illusion of eternal progress. The Way of All Flesh (1903), his autobiographical novel, is generally considered his masterpiece. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore