Butler: 1720 books

Purporting to be the work of "the late John Pickard Owen" (with a memoir by his brother), this 1873 satire set out to defend Christianity, but was written so subtly, that many readers, critics, and religious alike failed to recognize it as satire at all. While the first edition was written under a pseudonym,...

Ellis Parker Butler was an early 20th century American author who wrote dozens of works, his most famous being the short story Pigs is Pigs.

Ellis Parker Butler was an early 20th century American author who wrote dozens of works, his most famous being the short story Pigs is Pigs.

Another lighthearted tale from American author Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) which revolves around old Peter Lane, who lives on a decrepit houseboat on the Mississippi River and mostly whiles away his time whittling with his jack-knife and not really doing much else....

Humorous novel set in Riverbank, a fictionalized Muscatine, in a Mississippi River town. Pastor David Dean and his wife take up residence in this town, Iowa in the 1850s and learn how unaccepting a small town can be of new residents, even after a stay of decades. An interesting social history of mid...

Beloved humor writer Ellis Parker Butler hits it out of the ballpark with his first full-length novel, „Kilo: Being the Love Story of Eliph’ Hewlitt, Book Agent”. The plot centers around Eliph’ Hewlitt, a travelling book salesman of the horse-and-buggy era who finds the love of his life in...

In Pawn by Ellis Parker Butler.

The Adventures Of A Suburbanite by Ellis Parker Butler.

The Book of Mumboo Conteh is a work of fiction. But it could have been a biography. It could have been the story of any one of the thousands of peaceful Africans who were brutally ripped from their homes and families and taken to colonial America to serve the lust and greed of their brutal masters. Mumboo’s...

It was the ultimate irony. The skeptic who didn’t really have a belief in ghosts or even a slight interest in the paranormal winds up at the center of a series of supernatural encounters that turns his life upside down. After Lennon Moore was laid off from his position as a software engineer...

A Road Opens Westward and a Frightening Past is Left Behind. A handsome patent medicine peddler steals the heart of Lizzie Mueller, Heinrich Mueller’s daughter, who is intent on breaking 19th century constraints that anchor women to home and hearth. But when a diamond and pearl ring links...

Tapping some of the most ancient and authentic tales of Irish mythology, Lady Gregory presents legends from a time when gods still walked the earth. Retold from the Gaelic, this is one of the most entertaining and comprehensive sources of Irish myth available. The preface is by William Butler Yeats.

Over Christmas dinner Sue and Eddie gossip and discuss the good times they used to have together before their son left home, leaving a void in their lives. But then Eddie disappears with the dog and their neighbour's son comes round to liven things up and stay the night. Through the creation of a...

"You will come back though won't yere, Darren? Yer will come back? Say yer'll come back. Come back." Lucy is 17. She dreams of love, security and a bright future. But first she must confront reality - and reality means deciding who to trust. Leo Butler won the 2001 George Devine...