Erewhon or Over The Range

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1926.

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. Fifth edition. Very good: Book shows writing in crayon on front end pgs, card from former owner on inside front panel, bumping of corners, fraying of spine ends, loose spine/panels.

Item #235042

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Samuel Butler
birth name: Samuel Butler
born: 12/4/1835
died: 6/18/1902

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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