L'homme qui réussit est celui qui voit plus loin que ses voisins, mais pas plus loin qu'ils ne seront capables de voir eux-mêmes, le jour où on le leur apprendra, et pas assez loin pour les inquiéter. Il vaut beaucoup mieux ne pas savoir assez que de savoir trop. Les gens désapprouvent le "pas assez...
I read a long time ago The Way of All Flesh which is a novel that I adore. I never followed up with Erewhon until now. Erewhon starts as an adventure novel, but soon turns into a satirical essay. The narrator, Higgs, soon concentrates on the Erewhonian belief system, which he finds ridiculous, bu...
IntroductionSuggested Further ReadingNote on the TextPreface to First EditionPreface to Second EditionPreface--ErewhonAppendix: List of passages added by Butler to the text of the 1872 edition in 1901Notes
Introduction--The Way of all FleshNotes
Introduction--The Way of all FleshNotes
No offense to Butler, but The Way of All Flesh reads like a watered-down Dickens novel, with less excitement and flash.Ernest is wishy-washy and easily influenced, although by the end he finds himself and is doing work which he enjoys. The whole story is about him trying to understand who he is and ...
It has been some time since I had read the Odyssey. Honestly, I don't think I even read the whole thing when I first read it. I didn't remember Telemachus at all, so I must have just read the super interesting part about Ulysses's voyage.After just finishing the Iliad, the Odyssey reads much cleaner...
I read the Iliad because I am re-reading the Odyssey before I attempt Ulysses by Joyce. I figured, probably like some other readers here, I might as well read the Iliad because the stories are related.I plodded along through this. The interactions and scheming between the gods was by far the most in...
I was looking forward to reading this book. I enjoy reading classic literature from little-known authors. However, I was overall disappointed. There were long discourses in the book, where Samuel Butler ranted about things in Victorian life which irritated him. His main ire was directed toward t...
This is probably very accurate for its time because even in the late 19th century people were probably this ignorant and stuff (what am I saying? Of course they were, it was the Victorian era). Unfortunately it hasn't dated quite as well as some other satires (Twain for example). There are some p...
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