The Fair Haven
Samuel Butler
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Description
Samuel Butler wrote The Fair Haven under the mask of a dead author, John Pickard Owen, whose life opens the book in a memoir by his brother. This 1913 London edition adds an introduction by R. A. Streatfeild.
The work defends the miracles in the life of Jesus against two foes at once: doubters who call them myth, and church defenders whose weak methods do harm. Chapters take up Strauss and his dream theory of the Gospels, the change in Paul's life, and Paul's own words as proof. Butler's satire hides inside a grave, earnest form, which is the joke and the point.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Samuel Butler |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 468 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |