The Note-Books of Samuel Butler. eBook Inglese

Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) was a Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh. He also studied Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Clara Stillman wrote of Butler "What concerned him was to establish his nature, his aspirations and their fulfillment upon a philosophic basis, to identify them with the nature, the aspirations, the fulfillment of all humanity - and more than that - with the fulfillment of the universe . . . His struggle became generalized, symbolic, tremendous."