Butler Samuel: 99 books
by Samuel Butler
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Como las Escrituras religiosas, sus prácticas y escritos alientan la crueldad, la violencia, el odio y otras prácticas moralmente cuestionables, incluyendo el abuso sexual de menores. Muchos han llegado al extremo de la guerra y genocidio en el nombre de su religión preferida.
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A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
With Other Early Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Butler’s first book, published in 1863, is a lively compilation of letters that he sent to his family while working as a sheep farmer in New Zealand for several years. Financed and edited into book form by Butler’s father, it is a spirited account of Butler’s experiences on the frontier. This volume...
by Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Published in 1878, this is the first book in which Butler attacks Darwinism, and sets out an alternative, neo-Lamarckian theory which explores the role of memory in shaping organisms. Butler initially wrote the book as a tribute and complement to Darwin’s theory. Darwin chose to ignore the attack, but Butler continued to challenge the scientific establishment with three additional books.
Luck, Or Cunning? (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
As the Main Means of Organic Modification
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
This is Butler’s fourth book on his one-sided feud with Darwin wherein he again rejects Darwinism in favor of a neo-Lamarckian evolutionary view. While Butler was growing increasingly self-righteous and resentful over his belief that Darwin was deliberately hiding the truth about evolution, it was to be Butler’s last book on the subject.
by Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Published posthumously in 1904, this collection of essays, taken largely from Butler’s work published in The Universal Review in 1890, covers a wide range of subject matter—reflective of Butler’s diverse interests. Included among the essays are “Ramblings in Cheapside,” “Thought and Language,”...
by Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Since Butler's death in 1902 his fame has spread so rapidly and the world of letters now takes so keen in interest in the man and his writings that no apology is necessary for the republication of even his least significant works. I had long desired to bring out a new edition of his earliest book A FIRST...
by Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Published in 1917, this volume is based on a series of articles published by Butler in the 1870s and revised by him prior to his death. Here Butler sets forth his conception of the divine, as a evolutionary force that encompasses all living things and tends toward ever-greater unity and self-awareness.
by Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
In Erewhon, Butler’s hero Higgs had escaped from Erewhon by means of a balloon. In this 1901 sequel, he returns to find that he is now worshipped as a god. Butler himself viewed the novel as being "far more wicked than Erewhon," and generations of delighted readers have agreed.
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Ex Voto (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
An Account of the Sacro Monte Or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
This 1888 volume showcased Butler's encyclopedic knowledge of the art of Northern Italy and helped acquaint a wide English readership with the art of Tabachetti and Gaudenzio Ferrari at Varallo.
by Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
As the following dialogue embodies the earliest fruits of Butler's study of the works of Charles Darwin, with whose name his own was destined in later years to be so closely connected, and thus possesses an interest apart from its intrinsic merit, a few words as to the circumstances in which it was published will not be out of place.
Erewhon
O al otro lado de las montañas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 19, 2012
A partir de una visión negativa de la teoría de la evolución de Darwin, Butler crea en "Erewhon" una fantasía filosófica sobre un país situado en un lugar remoto del mundo que representa una antítesis de la Inglaterra de su época. Prácticamente todos los usos y costumbres sociales...
Erewhon (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Or Over the Range
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Published in 1872, this scathingly satirical utopian novel follows the exploits of a young traveler who finds himself in a strange and remote country where bizarre customs are the rule. Based on Butler's experiences in New Zealand, and influenced by his reading of Darwin, Erewhon is also notable for its early depiction of machine intelligence.
The Fair Haven (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Work in Defence of the Miraculous Element in Our Lord's Ministry upon Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
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,...