The Way of All Flesh
(Paperback)
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Hardback
Published: 15th November 1992
Paperback
Published: 15th December 1998
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Published: 23rd February 2006
Publishing Details
The Way of All Flesh
By (Author) Samuel Butler
Random House USA Inc
Modern Library Inc
15th December 1998
United States
Classifications
Physical Properties
Paperback
448
Width 133mm, Height 201mm, Spine 24mm
371g
Description
Written in the 1880's and not published until 1903 after Butler's death, the semiautobiographical story of the Pontifex family savages the bourgeois Victorian family and its values.
Author Bio
SAMUEL BUTLER (1835-1902), the freethinking iconoclast whom George Bernard Shaw deemed "the greatest English writer of the latter half of the nineteenth century,also satirized Victorian society in Erewhon (1872) and Erewhon Revisited (1901). His work strongly influenced such writers as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and James Joyce.
