Henry Festing Jones, Butler’s friend and collaborator, traces his life from the rectory at Langar in Nottinghamshire, as grandson of the famous headmaster of Shrewsbury, through sheep farming in New Zealand, painting, failed business ventures in Canada and the long London years of writing Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh and his contrarian works.
A concise, affectionate portrait of one of the great Victorian iconoclasts. Download the free EPUB.