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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( B ) : Butler, Samuel
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Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement," Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood satirizes Victorian hypocrisy in its chronicle of the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex. Along the way, it offers a powerful indictment of 19th-century England's major institutions.
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Epic masterpiece chronicles last days of the Trojan War — quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon, the battle for Helen of Troy, Greek siege of the city, Trojan counterattack, stratagem of the Trojan Horse, many other events. Vast in scope, fresh and noble in literary style. This edition reproduces the celebrated Samuel Butler prose translation.
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Erewhon (an anagram for "nowhere") is a faraway land where machinery is forbidden, sickness is a punishable crime, and criminals receive compassionate medical treatment. Butler's brilliant Utopian novel is an entertaining and thought-provoking work, taking aim at such hallowed institutions as family, church, and mechanical progress.
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This novel is largely autobiographical, detailing the familial strife which characterized Butler's life and often figures in his work. Ernest, the novel's hero, has an unhappy schooling and little success in romance; his sadness is exacerbated by his father, Theobald Pontifex, a bullying clergyman. An unfortunate marriage makes a happy adult life appear impossible, until Ernest begins to seek fulfillment in literature, finding meaning in the life of a writer.
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Professor Hering's philosophy of the unconscious is of extreme simplicity. He rests upon a fact of daily and hourly experience, namely, that practice makes things easy that were once difficult, and often results in their being done without any consciousness of effort. But if the repetition of an act tends ultimately, under certain circumstances, to its being done unconsciously, so also is the fact of an intricate and difficult action being done unconsciously an argument that it must have been done repeatedly already.
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Over 400 quotations, some more familiar than others, but all thoughtfully and precisely expressed. Includes such timeless observations as "A true friend is one soul in two bodies" (Aristotle) and "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept" (Samuel Butler). Also, thought-provoking reflections by Socrates, Confucius, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Ambrose Bierce, and many others.
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When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a stick. He must have been getting on for eighty in the year 1807 earlier than which date I suppose I can hardly remember him for I was born in 1802. (Excerpt)
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The reputation of this incomparable Poem is so thoroughly established in the world that it would be superfluous if not impertinent to endeavour any panegyric upon it.
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Samuel Butler, scholar, painter, pioneer photographer and novelist (author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh) was one of the less orthodox of Victorian intellectual provocateurs, who confronted powerful orthodoxies such as the Church, the academic establishment, and scientific Darwinism. During the last decade of his productive life his main concern became the 'Homeric question'. In his youth he had been a classical scholar at Cambridge; but this work of 1897 is unlike any work of mainstream Victorian classicism. His theory - that the Odyssey was written by a woman and (even more startlingly) by one who configured herself in the epic as the Phaeacian princess, Nausicaa - set him on collision course with all the 'authordoxies' of the stuffy, patriarchal establishment of 'Oxbridge' scholarship. His exposition hesitates in a grey area between closely reasoned argument, eccentric tomfoolery and knowing polemicism. The establishment never could determine whether to take it seriously or as an elaborate spoof of their own methodologies. Certainly, Butler himself never let on what his intentions were. Now, in an age when gender studies and reception theory have a compelling influence on readings of the classical world, it is appropriate to make this book available again. The issues involved are examined by Whitmarsh in a totally new introduction. Butler's work continues to challenge, provoke and amuse.
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Samuel Butler, scholar, painter, pioneer photographer and novelist (author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh) was one of the less orthodox of Victorian intellectual provocateurs, who confronted powerful orthodoxies such as the Church, the academic establishment, and scientific Darwinism. During the last decade of his productive life his main concern became the 'Homeric question'. In his youth he had been a classical scholar at Cambridge; but this work of 1897 is unlike any work of mainstream Victorian classicism. His theory - that the Odyssey was written by a woman and (even more startlingly) by one who configured herself in the epic as the Phaeacian princess, Nausicaa - set him on collision course with all the 'authordoxies' of the stuffy, patriarchal establishment of 'Oxbridge' scholarship. His exposition hesitates in a grey area between closely reasoned argument, eccentric tomfoolery and knowing polemicism. The establishment never could determine whether to take it seriously or as an elaborate spoof of their own methodologies. Certainly, Butler himself never let on what his intentions were. Now, in an age when gender studies and reception theory have a compelling influence on readings of the classical world, it is appropriate to make this book available again. The issues involved are examined by Whitmarsh in a totally new introduction. Butler's work continues to challenge, provoke and amuse.
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Prefaced byRichard Alexander Streatfeild
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Ulysses, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters resistance from the Sirens, Circe the sorceress, the Cyclops, and other dangers, only to find his wife, Penelope, being pursued by various suitors. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
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Called the world's greatest adventure story, the Odyssey introduced a gallery of characters and events that have profoundly influenced western literature. Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, the Lotus Eaters, a visit with the dead, and most resonant, Odysseus's determined search for home are all here in one of the classic translations.
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Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he heard some one say more commonly it was something he said himself. In one of these notes he gives a reason for making them:
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Called the world's greatest adventure story, The Odyssey is a celebration of life in all its variety and directness. The poem has deeply ingrained in us the sense of life as a journey, introducing a gallery of characters and events taht have prodoundly influenced western literature. Scylla and Charybdis, Circe, the Lotus Eaters, a visit with the dead, and most resonant, Odysseus' determined search for home, are all here in one of the classic translations.Roger Rees, best known on American television for his role as Robin Colcord on Cheers, brings his talent and humor to this reading of the classic tale.
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Butler 's first book, "Erewhon" is about a trip to an imaginary land where things are almost utopian. Lack of morality, physical disability and such are treated as intentional wrong-doings. A book that dwells on the customs and traditions of this imaginary land and creates picturesque scenes. Marvellous! This EasyRead Comfort Edition has been optimized for readers who do not need large type yet prefer a print that does not strain their eyes.
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An Early Attempt To Prove That A Woman Wrote The Odyssey.