Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain

Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain

Author: James G. Paradis

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0802097456

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Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that provides a critical overview of Butler's career, one which places his multifaceted body of work within the cultural framework of the Victorian age.


The Note-books of Samuel Butler ...

The Note-books of Samuel Butler ...

Author: Samuel Butler

Publisher: IndyPublish.com

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13:

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The whole life of some people is a kind of partial death--a long, lingering death-bed, so to speak, of stagnation and nonentity on which death is but the seal, or solemn signing, as the abnegation of all further act and deed on the part of the signer. Death robs these people of even that little strength which they appeared to have and gives them nothing but repose.