Posted on December 4, 2014 at 12:00 AM by Jeffrey Bruner
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English author Samuel Butler was born on this day in 1835. Butler created translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, of which both are still used today. His best-known works are the satire "Erewhon" and a semi-autobiographical novel "The Way of All Flesh."
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