Cambridge Pieces

A sharp-edged mirror of Victorian life, Cambridge Pieces gathers Samuel Butler's sly observations into a compact, disarming collection. Witty, humane, and unsentimental, these pieces move from crisp humour sketches to pointed essays, tracing the manners, pretensions, and intellectual life of late nineteenth-century Britain. This volume offers more than entertainment; it is a compact map of Victorian Britain seen through Butler's clear-eyed intelligence. The humour ranges from razors of soci...