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SAMUEL BUTLER (1835-1902), the freethinking iconoclast whom George Bernard Shaw deemed "the greatest English writer of the latter half of the nineteenth century, also satirized Victorian society in Erewhon (1872) and Erewhon Revisited (1901). His work strongly influenced such writers as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and James Joyce.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Conflict of generations Fiction, Children of clergy Fiction, Parent and child Fiction, Middle class Fiction, Young men Fiction, England Fiction