The Fair Haven
London: A. C. Fifield, 1913.
Price: $50.00
Hardcover. Later printing. Good with a faded spine, some stain marks on the boards, corners bumped. With the bookplate of Carl Van Vechten on the front pastedown.
Item #298411
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