Books by Samuel Butler

Originally published in 1905, this book contains the text of Hudibras by the satirical poet Samuel Butler (1613-80). The text is taken from the 1678 edition of the poem, and notes on the variations on the text found in previous versions are included at the back of the book.

This 1908 volume of Samuel Butler's writings falls into two parts: the first part was derived from Thyer's edition of The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr Samuel Butler; the second part contains previously unpublished material taken from the Butler Manuscripts in the British Library.

A scholarly edition of Samuel Butler: Prose Observations by Helen Darbishire. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

'I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.' With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, the novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth 'in the bosom of a Christian family'. With irony, wit and sometimes rancour, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning inside-out the conventional novel of a family's life through several generations.