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The Note Books of Samuel Butler is a collection of the private musings and observations of the famous Victorian author and satirist, Samuel Butler. Compiled by his friend and literary executor, Henry Festing Jones, the book offers a unique insight into Butler's mind and creative... Read Full Overview

The British author Samuel Butler's "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler" is a compilation of essays and aphorisms. The book offers Butler's thoughts on his surroundings and covers a broad variety of subjects, including literature, science, philosophy, and the arts. Butler makes insightful... Read Full Overview

The British author Samuel Butler's "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler" is a compilation of essays and aphorisms. The book offers Butler's thoughts on his surroundings and covers a broad variety of subjects, including literature, science, philosophy, and the arts. Butler makes insightful... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

The Note Books of Samuel Butler is a collection of the personal writings and musings of Samuel Butler, a renowned English author and satirist. The book is a compilation of Butler's notes and thoughts on various subjects, including literature, philosophy, religion, and science,... Read Full Overview

'The freest, most original and most varied thinker of his generation.. Neither Erewhon nor The Way of All Flesh, but the posthumous work entitled Note Books will stand, in our judgment, as the decisive contribution of Samuel Butler to the thought of his age' Nation