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25 de feb. de 2016 · Samuel Butler (b. 1835–d. 1902), the iconoclastic writer who challenged a broad range of orthodoxies, is now best known for two novels— Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903)—and for his quarrel with Charles Darwin. He read Classics at St John’s College, Cambridge before embarking on a profitable sheep ...
20 de mar. de 2005 · PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. Having been enabled by the kindness of the public to get through an unusually large edition of “Erewhon” in a very short time, I have taken the opportunity of a second edition to make some necessary corrections, and to add a few passages where it struck me that they would be appropriately introduced; the passages are few, and it is my fixed intention never to ...
Samuel Butler ( 1835 - 1902) était un écrivain britannique principalement connu pour sa satire Erewhon, ou De l’autre côté des montagnes et pour son roman posthume Ainsi va toute chair .
Samuel Butler, (born Dec. 4, 1835, Langar Rectory, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died June 18, 1902, London), British novelist, essayist, and critic. Descended from distinguished clergymen, he grappled for many years with Christianity and evolution, first embracing, then rejecting, Charles Darwin ’s theories in his writings.
Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh, his two best-known works, but also extending to examinations of Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism.
Samuel Butler was born in Strensham, Worcestershire, and was the son of a farmer and churchwarden, also named Samuel. His date of birth is unknown, but there is documentary evidence for the date of his baptism of 14 February. [1] The date of Butler's baptism is given as 8 February by Treadway Russell Nash in his 1793 edition of Hudibras.
Los primeros capítulos de la novela que tratan del descubrimiento de Erewhon se basan, de hecho, en las propias experiencias de Butler en Nueva Zelanda, donde, de joven, trabajó como criador de ovejas en la «Estación de Mesopotamia», al este de los Alpes del Sur durante unos cuatro años (1860-1864), desde donde exploró partes del interior de la Isla Sur y sobre las cuales escribió A ...
