Samuel Butler

The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 an…

Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly d…

A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain read by LibriVox volunteers.

This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the English countryside; William R…

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 …

Samuel Butler travelled to the South Island of New Zealand in 1860, landing at Lyttleton, the main port for the Canterbury Settlement. Altho…

"A legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, first mentioned by Plato", is how the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica descr…