The Notebooks of Samuel Butler (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Edited by Butler’s friend and posthumous biographer, Henry Festing Jones, this volume is a compendium of Butler’s thoughts, insights, and reflections, gathered over the course of his lifetime. In addition to his descriptions of incidents and conversations from his life, there are Butler’s fascinating musings on such subjects as philosophy, music, art, literature, morality, biology, and natural history.