The Essential Samuel Butler
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, (ca. 1950).
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a sunned spine, rubbing and damp stains.
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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