Samuel Butler (novelist)
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Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since
Portrait by Charles Gogin
Samuel Butler's birthplace and childhood home
Butler at the age of 23, in 1858
Homer's Daughter
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Homer's Daughter is a 1955 novel by British author Robert Graves, famous for I, Claudius and The White Goddess.
Samuel Butler (novelist)
…1897) and in the introduction and footnotes to his prose translation of the Odyssey (1900). Robert Graves elaborated on the hypothesis in his novel Homer's Daughter. Butler argued in a lecture entitled "The Humour of Homer", delivered at The Working Men's College in London, 1892, that Homer's deities in the Iliad…
First edition (publ. Cassell)