Samuel Butler

Victorian author, polymath and classical scholar, Samuel Butler (1835–1902) was famous for predicting Artificial Intelligence in 1863 and for his controversial theory that The Odyssey was written by a woman. His 1900 prose translation and his study The Authoress of The Odyssey are both published by EnvelopeBooks. He is best known for his satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and his semi-autobiographical masterpiece The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903).