Samuel Butler
/ˌsæmjuəl ˈbʌtlə(r)/
/ˌsæmjuəl ˈbʌtlər/
- (1835-1902) an English writer who escaped from his extremely religious English family to become a farmer in New Zealand. He wrote about this experience in his novel The Way of All Flesh (1903). His other famous book, Erewhon, makes fun of religion and other human ideas.
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