Samuel Butler: 99 books

A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states that dystopian works depict a negative view of "the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction." This Golden...

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad) attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BCE. The poem is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, and concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus in his long journey...

Can we live better? 7 classic utopias is a collection of the most famous classical works on the topic of an ideal society.For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness. But can these worlds ever exist in reality?Many thinkers and...

“The only thing of which I am sure is, that the distinction between the organic and inorganic is arbitrary.” So writes Samuel Butler is his work of biological philosophy, Unconscious Memory, where he presents his theories of the mind through the lens of his criticism of established scientific ideas.

. This book is about the consequences of religion more than whether Christ rose from the dead (Krishna, Mithras, Osiris, Attis of Phrygia, Dionysus, all of whom besides being born on December 25th from a virgin mother, died and were resurrected, except for Mithras - who ascended directly without dying!)...

Welcome to the 3 Books To Know series, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great...

In Erewhon, Higgs, a sheep farmer, and his friend Chowbok, decide one day to visit the forbidden country that lies beyond the mountains. When they come upon a hidden trail, Chowbok gets frightened and runs home, but Higgs goes on alone. After a dangerous journey, he wakes one morning surrounded by...

Whether you're a long-time fan of British author Samuel Butler (best known for his shrewd satire of utopian fiction, Erewhon) or you're just diving into his diverse body of work, this omnibus collection is an engaging read that's sure to catch and hold your interest. It contains excerpts from both his fiction and his non-fiction and serves as a suitable overview of his unique oeuvre.

Samuel Butler was a Victorian-era English writer who is well known for the satire Erewhon and for examining Christian orthodoxy and evolutionary thought.  This edition of Unconscious Memory includes a table of contents.

Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as the first twentieth-century novel. Samuel Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood shines an iconoclastic light on the hypocrisy of a Victorian clerical...

It is hardly necessary to apologise for the miscellaneous character of the following collection of essays. Samuel Butler was a man of such unusual versatility, and his interests were so many and so various that his literary remains were bound to cover a wide field. Nevertheless it will be found that...

«El destino de la carne» es una obra intensamente autobiográfica. Su protagonista, Ernest Pontifex, encarna muchos de los conflictos que gobernaron la vida de su autor. Nacido en le seno de una familia acomodada, el joven Pontifex es víctima de unos padres reprimidos, de la miseria moral del sistema...

Recognized as a top-notch scholar with widely ranging interests and an encyclopedic knowledge of an array of academic disciplines, Samuel Butler contributed meaningfully to late nineteenth-century research in a number of fields. This volume collects some of his most important lectures and essays, a number...

Como las Escrituras religiosas, sus prácticas y escritos alientan la crueldad, la violencia, el odio y otras prácticas moralmente cuestionables, incluyendo el abuso sexual de menores. Muchos han llegado al extremo de la guerra y genocidio en el nombre de su religión preferida. Este libro es más...