Samuel Butler Books


The Way of All Flesh

Samuel Butler

The Way of All Flesh is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family.Samuel But..

Luck or Cunning

Samuel Butler

This book, as I have said in my concluding chapter, has turned out very different from the one I had it in my mind to write when I began it.  It arose out of a conversation with the late Mr. Alfr..

God the Known and God the Unknown

Samuel Butler

God the Known and God the Unknown is a philosophical work by Samuel Butler, the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The ..

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement

Samuel Butler

The writer of the following pages, having resolved on emigrating to New Zealand, took his passage in the ill-fated ship Burmah, which never reached her destination, and is believed to have perished wi..

Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification

Samuel Butler

This second edition of Luck, or Cunning? is a reprint of the first edition, dated 1887, but actually published in November, 1886.  The only alterations of any consequence are in the Index, which ..