The Collected Works of Samuel Butler E-Book

Butler Samuel

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

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Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 9222 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Odyssey • The Iliad • Erewhon; Or, Over the Range • The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography • The Way of All Flesh • Unconscious Memory • Ex Voto: An Account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia • The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars • Lives of the Poets, Volume Samuel Johnson • Essays on Life, Art and Science • Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son • God the Known and God the Unknown • Life and Habit • Aspects of LiteratureJohn Middleton Murry • Evolution, Old & New • The Collection at Saint John's College, CambridgeHenry Festing Jones and A. T. Bartholomew • Cambridge Pieces • The Humour of and Other Essays • Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • The Fair Haven • Canterbury Pieces • A First Year in Canterbury Settlement • Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification • Selections from Previous Works • etc.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

THE ODYSSEY

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION

THE ODYSSEY

BOOK I

BOOK II

BOOK III

TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS.

BOOK IV

BOOK V

CALYPSO—ULYSSES REACHES SCHERIA ON A RAFT.

BOOK VI

THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES.

BOOK VII

RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS.

BOOK VIII

BANQUET IN THE HOUSE OF ALCINOUS—THE GAMES.

BOOK IX

BOOK X

AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE.

BOOK XI

THE VISIT TO THE DEAD. 88

BOOK XII

THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN.

BOOK XIII

ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA.

BOOK XIV

ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS.

BOOK XV

BOOK XVI

ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS.

BOOK XVII

BOOK XVIII

BOOK XIX

BOOK XX

BOOK XXI

BOOK XXII

BOOK XXIII

BOOK XXIV

THE ILIAD OF HOMER

BOOK I

BOOK II

BOOK III

BOOK IV

BOOK V

BOOK VI

BOOK VII

BOOK VIII

BOOK IX

BOOK X

BOOK XI

BOOK XII

BOOK XIII

BOOK XIV

BOOK XV

BOOK XVI

BOOK XVII

BOOK XVIII

BOOK XIX

BOOK XX

BOOK XXI

BOOK XXII

BOOK XXIII

BOOK XXIV

The Humour of Homer and Other Essays

Introduction By R. A. Streatfeild

Sketch of the Life of Samuel Butler Author of Erewhon (1835-1902) by Henry Festing Jones

Note

Sketch of the Life of Samuel Butler Author of Erewhon (1835-1902)

The Humour of Homer {59}

Quis Desiderio . . .? {99}

Ramblings in Cheapside {110}

The Aunt, the Nieces, and the Dog {127}

How to Make the Best of Life {142}

The Sanctuary of Montrigone {153a}

A Medieval Girl School {166}

Art in the Valley of Saas {188}

Thought and Language {209}

The Deadlock in Darwinism: Part I {245}

The Deadlock in Darwinism: Part II {271}

The Deadlock in Darwinism: Part III

SAMUEL BUTLER'S CAMBRIDGE PIECES

ON ENGLISH COMPOSITION AND OTHER MATTERS

CELLARIUS.

OUR TOUR

TRANSLATION FROM AN UNPUBLISHED WORK OF HERODOTUS

THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES, WITH VARIATIONS

PROSPECTUS OF THE GREAT SPLIT SOCIETY

POWERS

A SKIT ON EXAMINATIONS

THOMAS BRIDGES NAPOLEON

BURSARE SENIOR,

I

II

AN EMINENT PERSON

NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA

THE TWO DEANS

I

II

SCENE.—The Court of St. John's College, Cambridge. Enter the two Deans on their way to morning chapel.

THE BATTLE OF ALMA MATER

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

ON THE ITALIAN PRIESTHOOD

SAMUEL BUTLER AND THE SIMEONITES

SAMUEL BUTLER'S CANTERBURY PIECES

DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

"THE SAVOYARD."

DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES

LUCUBRATIO EBRIA

THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS

HORATIO . . .

ESSAYS ON LIFE ART AND SCIENCE

INTRODUCTION

QUIS DESIDERIO . . . ? [1]

RAMBLINGS IN CHEAPSIDE [2]

THE AUNT, THE NIECES, AND THE DOG [3]

HOW TO MAKE THE BEST OF LIFE [4]

THE SANCTUARY OF MONTRIGONE [6]

A MEDIEVAL GIRL SCHOOL [8]

ART IN THE VALLEY OF SAAS [11]

THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE [16]

THE DEADLOCK IN DARWINISM [20]—PART I

THE DEADLOCK IN DARWINISM—PART II [29]

THE DEADLOCK IN DARWINISM—PART III

Footnotes:

ALPS AND SANCTUARIES OF PIEDMONT AND THE CANTON TICINO

CHAPTER I—Introduction

CHAPTER II—Faido

CHAPTER III—Primadengo, Calpiognia, Dalpe, Cornone, and Prato

CHAPTER IV—Rossura, Calonico

CHAPTER V—Calonico (continued) and Giornico

CHAPTER VI—Piora

CHAPTER VII—S. Michele and the Monte Pirchiriano

CHAPTER VIII—S. Michele (continued)

CHAPTER IX—The North Italian Priesthood

CHAPTER X—S. Ambrogio and Neighbourhood

CHAPTER XI—Lanzo

CHAPTER XII—Considerations on the Decline of Italian Art

CHAPTER XIII—Viu, Fucine, and S. Ignazio

CHAPTER XIV—Sanctuary of Oropa

CHAPTER XV—Oropa (continued)

CHAPTER XVI—Graglia

CHAPTER XVII—Soazza and the Valley of Mesocco

CHAPTER XVIII—Mesocco, S. Bernardino, and S. Maria in Calanca

CHAPTER XIX—The Mendrisiotto

CHAPTER XX—Sanctuary on Monte Bisbino

CHAPTER XXI—A Day at the Cantine

CHAPTER XXII—Sacro Monte, Varese

CHAPTER XXIII—Angera and Arona

CHAPTER XXIV—Locarno

CHAPTER XXV—Fusio

Luck, or Cunning As the Main Means of Organic Modification?

p. 6Note

p. 7Author’s Preface to First Edition

Contents

p. 13Chapter I Introduction

p. 28Chapter II Mr. Herbert Spencer

p. 42Chapter III Mr. Herbert Spencer (continued)

p. 52Chapter IV [52a] Mr. Romanes’ “Mental Evolution in Animals”

p. 70Chapter V Statement of the Question at Issue

p. 80Chapter VI Statement of the Question at Issue (continued)

p. 100Chapter VII (Intercalated) Mr. Spencer’s “The Factors of Organic Evolution”

p. 112Chapter VIII Property, Common Sense, and Protoplasm

p. 125Chapter IX Property, Common Sense, and Protoplasm (continued)

p. 135Chapter X The Attempt to Eliminate Mind

p. 147Chapter XI The Way of Escape

p. 156Chapter XII Why Darwin’s Variations were Accidental

p. 168Chapter XIII Darwin’s Claim to Descent with Modification

p. 177Chapter XIV Darwin and Descent with Modification (continued)

p. 202Chapter XV The Excised “My’s”

p. 211Chapter XVI Mr. Grant Allen’s “Charles Darwin”

p. 225Chapter XVII Professor Ray Lankester and Lamarck

p. 239Chapter XVIII Per Contra

p. 251Chapter XIX Conclusion

EX VOTO: AN ACCOUNT OF THE SACRO MONTE OR NEW JERUSALEM AT VARALLO- SESIA WITH SOME NOTICE OF TABACHETTI'S REMAINING WORK AT THE SANCTUARY OF CREA

PREFACE.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.