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An edition of The way of all flesh (1900)

The way of all flesh

1998 Modern Library pbk. ed.

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Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement."

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English
Pages
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Conflict of generations, Fiction, Children of clergy, Parent and child, Middle class, Young men, Fiction, sagas, Parent and child, fiction, England, fiction, Classic Literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Autobiographical fiction, Social life and customs, Historical fiction, Manners and customs, Domestic fiction, Children's fiction, Great britain, fiction, England in fiction, Parent and child in fiction, Middl126e class, Young men in fiction, Children of clergy in fiction, Conflict of generations in fiction, Middle class in fiction, English fiction, Large type books, Fiction, general, Tariff, Protectionism, Tarif douanier, Protectionnisme

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Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

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England, Great Britain

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19th century, 20th century

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Series
The Modern Library classics
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR4349.B7 W3 1998, PR4349.B7W3 1998

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Pagination
vii, 431 p. ;
Number of pages
431

ID Numbers

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OL361136M
ISBN 10
0375752498
LCCN
98021241
OCLC/WorldCat
26029400
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11895
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I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.' With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, the novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth 'in the bosom of a Christian family'. With irony, wit and sometimes rancour, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning inside-out the conventional novel of a family's life through several generations.

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