"This was one of the massive summer reads for my online Classics Club book club. I even think I nominated it as an option, so I am admittedly a fan of this work. I first read it in 1996, back when I was supposed to be avoiding anything in English as part of the contract for my German immersion summe...
Samuel Butler is now famous primarily for his satirical novels, but he was also a painter, photographer, travel-writer, and art critic. His own writing indicates that Butler viewed painting as his primary career, although he was never successful at it and few of his paintings survive. Because so lit...