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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Samuel Butler
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(1835–1902) Author much influenced by a suffocating Anglican family background. He escaped from the threat of holy orders by taking up sheep farming in New Zealand, but an ambivalent fascination with religion and later with theories of evolution was to be a central theme of his books from *Erewhon in 1872 to the autobiographical novel The Way of all Flesh (published in 1903, after his death), which recounts his escape as a young man from his family.
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