Samuel Butler
1835 – 1902 · aged 67
English novelist and critic (1835–1902)
- Born
- 4 Dec 1835 · Langar
- Died
- 18 Jun 1902 · St John's Wood Road
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- 4 Dec 1835BornBorn in Langar
- 18 Jun 1902DiedDied in St John's Wood Road
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- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
Biography
Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) 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 (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or 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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