The novel's narrative structure mirrors the protagonist's journey towards self-discovery and liberation, making it a compelling and thought-provoking read for those interested in 19th-century literature.

A classic Greek tale, Homer captured the essence of the story by hand, and the Odyssey is one of the oldest extant works of literature read by contemporary audiences.

Written in the 1880s and not published until 1903 after Butler's death, the semi-autobiographical story of the Pontifex family savages the bourgeois Victorian family and its values. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, English novelist, essayist, and iconoclast Samuel Butler (1835-1902) describes an imaginary visit to a topsy-turvy country called Erewhon (an anagram of "nowhere"), where it ...

The book is a satire on Victorian society.The first few chapters of the novel dealing with the discovery of Erewhon are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand, where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on ...

Reproduction of the original: The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler