The Way of All Flesh
1st Edition
Published on 23. February 2006
448 pages
978-0-14-195854-5 (ISBN)
Description
'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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
2,15 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-14-195854-5 (9780141958545)
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Samuel Butler | James Cochrane
The Way of All Flesh
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02/2006
Penguin Classics
€20.60
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