Samuel Butler Books

A sharp family novel about Victorian authority, hypocrisy, inheritance, and one young man’s escape into intellectual freedom.

A speculative satire where a reversed utopia exposes strange laws about illness, machines, morality, and social order.

A mock-heroic English satire of zeal, politics, argument, and Restoration wit.

Butler’s sharp religious satire on apologetics, belief, evidence, and Victorian argument.

Samuel Butler compares earlier evolutionary thinkers with Darwin, tracing disputes about purpose, inheritance, adaptation, and natural selection.