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Samuel Butler

1835 - 1902

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Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh). Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Butler is the 461st most popular writer (up from 583rd in 2019), the 422nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 421st in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Writer.

Samuel Butler is most famous for his satirical poem "Hudibras," which is a mock epic poem about the English Civil War.

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Among writers, Samuel Butler ranks 461 out of 7,302. Before him are Louis Aragon, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gabriela Mistral, Ahmad Yasawi, Baldassare Castiglione, and Dan Brown. After him are Statius, Thomas Bernhard, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Harper Lee, Mahmoud Darwish, and Eugene O'Neill.

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Among people born in 1835, Samuel Butler ranks 13. Before him are Adolf von Baeyer, Josef Stefan, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Giosuè Carducci, Andrew Carnegie, and Demetrius Vikelas. After him are Henryk Wieniawski, César Cui, Eduard Strauss, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Fukuzawa Yukichi, and William Stanley Jevons. Among people deceased in 1902, Samuel Butler ranks 5. Before him are Émile Zola, Cecil Rhodes, Swami Vivekananda, and Rudolf Virchow. After him are Levi Strauss, Maria Goretti, Marie Henriette of Austria, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert of Saxony, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, and Ion Ivanovici.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Butler ranks 422 out of 8,785. Before him are Andrew Carnegie (1835), Philip Larkin (1922), Thomas De Quincey (1785), Margaret Tudor (1489), William Laud (1573), and Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486). After him are William Morris (1834), Alexander Selkirk (1676), Vanessa Redgrave (1937), David Harvey (1935), Benjamin Britten (1913), and Timothy Dalton (1946).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Butler ranks 43. Before him are William Wordsworth (1770), Graham Greene (1904), John Galsworthy (1867), Ian Fleming (1908), Philip Larkin (1922), and Thomas De Quincey (1785). After him are Ken Follett (1949), Arnold Bennett (1867), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), Thomas Paine (1737), G. K. Chesterton (1874), and J. M. Barrie (1860).

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