Books author - "Samuel Butler"
Description The knight-errant Hudibras and his trusty (and somewhat more grounded) squire Ralph roam the land in search of adventure and love. Never the most congenial of partners, their constant arguments are Samuel Butlerβs satire of the major issues of the day in late 17th century Britain, including the recent civil war, religious sectarianism, philosophy, astrology, and even the differing rights of women and men. Butler had originally studied to be a lawyer (which explains some of the
Description The Way of All Flesh is often considered to be Samuel Butlerβs masterpiece, and is frequently included in many lists of best English-language novels of the 20th century. Despite this acclaim, Butler never published it in his lifetimeβperhaps because the novel, a scathing, funny, and poignant satire of Victorian life, would have hit his contemporaries too close to home. The novel traces four generations of the Pontifex family, though the central character is Ernest Pontifex, the
Description In a desire for better sheep-farming land on an unnamed British colony, Higgs decides to traverse the distant mountain range. On the other side he discovers not the empty rolling plains of his imagination but an entirely new civilization: the land of Erewhon. Inducted into the ways of their culture, he attempts to transcribe as best he can their thoughts on birth, death, machines, the production of food, their financial system, and many more subjects that on first glance seem absurd
Introduction--General Ignorance On The Subject Of Evolution At The Time The "Origin Of Species" Was Published In 1859. There Are Few Things Which Strike Us With More Surprise, When We Review The Course Taken By Opinion In The Last Century, Than The Suddenness With Which Belief In Witchcraft And Demoniacal Possession Came To An End.
Description The knight-errant Hudibras and his trusty (and somewhat more grounded) squire Ralph roam the land in search of adventure and love. Never the most congenial of partners, their constant arguments are Samuel Butlerβs satire of the major issues of the day in late 17th century Britain, including the recent civil war, religious sectarianism, philosophy, astrology, and even the differing rights of women and men. Butler had originally studied to be a lawyer (which explains some of the
Description The Way of All Flesh is often considered to be Samuel Butlerβs masterpiece, and is frequently included in many lists of best English-language novels of the 20th century. Despite this acclaim, Butler never published it in his lifetimeβperhaps because the novel, a scathing, funny, and poignant satire of Victorian life, would have hit his contemporaries too close to home. The novel traces four generations of the Pontifex family, though the central character is Ernest Pontifex, the
Description In a desire for better sheep-farming land on an unnamed British colony, Higgs decides to traverse the distant mountain range. On the other side he discovers not the empty rolling plains of his imagination but an entirely new civilization: the land of Erewhon. Inducted into the ways of their culture, he attempts to transcribe as best he can their thoughts on birth, death, machines, the production of food, their financial system, and many more subjects that on first glance seem absurd
Introduction--General Ignorance On The Subject Of Evolution At The Time The "Origin Of Species" Was Published In 1859. There Are Few Things Which Strike Us With More Surprise, When We Review The Course Taken By Opinion In The Last Century, Than The Suddenness With Which Belief In Witchcraft And Demoniacal Possession Came To An End.