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English author Samuel Butler was a harsh critic of Victorian morals, religion, and science. This is clearly visible in the semiautobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh, which follows four generations of the Pontifex family, whose members embody the Victorian-era hypocrisy that Butler despised...

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Written by Lord Byron, Manfred is a nineteenth-century poetic drama whose main character is tormented by his incestuous love for his sister. He lives as an outcast in the Alps and invokes the spirits of the universe in an attempt to find peace. Lord Byron?s poetry and dramas were popular in England and Europe and he was one of the leading figures of Romanticism...

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Samuel Butler's Essays on Life, Art and Science is a collection of writings on assorted topics, including Darwinism and a biographical sketch of famous sculptor Tabachetti. Butler is best known for his satiric novel Erewhon. ..

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Considered one of the great American authors, Willa Cather eventually won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1923 for the novel One of Ours. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories was her first publication and includes seven stories that stylishly illustrate the ambitions and failures of the artist in American society. This collection led to Cather’s appointment as managing editor of McClure’s Magazine and launched her career...

Don Quixote is regarded as one of the finest novels ever written. It is the most published and translated book in the world, second only to the Bible, and has been a bestseller since 1605. Miguel de Cervantes tells the story of a mad knight and his sidekick, Sancho Panza. Its humor, ranging from broad farce to comedy, distinguishes it from all other romance novels and places Cervantes in the company of Shakespeare and Moliere...

Song of the Lark, by WiIla Cather, published in 1915, is a story about a young talented girl, Thea Kronborg, growing up in a small town in 1890s Colorado, who becomes a world famous opera singer. Cather clearly understands that a life in art requires the renunciation of attachments that threaten to divert the artist from her pursuit of Beauty, and that such a path brings isolation, loneliness, and sorrow, as well as the satisfaction of artistic achievement and a responsibility to those who encourage and help the artist find her way. ..

Willa Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel about a young man of the midwestern prairie who lives a life of dissatisfaction until World War I provides him with the opportunity to realize his potential to live a life worthy of his ideals. He travels across the country, sails to Europe, leads men, risks and loses his life "believing his own country better than it is, and France better than any country can ever be. And those were beautiful beliefs to die with."..