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The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh
'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...
The Way of All Flesh
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family...
The Way of All Flesh: Introduction by P. N. Fur...
The Way of All Flesh
Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as the first twentieth-century novel. Samuel Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood shines an iconoclastic light on the...
The Way of All Flesh
era hypocrisy as it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents a relaxation from the harsh religious outlook of Calvinism. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published, it was accepted as part of the general revolution against...
The Way of All Flesh Illustrated
The Way of All Flesh (sometimes called Ernest Pontifex, or the Way of All Flesh) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. 1] Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish...
Samuel Butler - The Way of All Flesh: "Brigands...
Samuel Butler was born on 4th December 1835 at the village rectory in Langar, Nottinghamshire. His relationship with his parents, especially his father, was largely antagonistic. His education began at home and included frequent beatings, as was all too common at the time. Under...
The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that explores Victorian-era hypocrisy, and traces four generations of the Pontifex family.Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed...
The Way of All Flesh (World's Best Reading) Rea...
The Way of All Flesh
'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...
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The Way of All Flesh (Illustrated Edition)
The Way of All Flesh Illustrated
The Way of all Flesh, Samuel Butler; Pictures b...
1936 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB hardcover, Samuel Butler (The Notebooks of Samuel Butler). a thinly disguised account of Butler's own Victorian childhood.
The way of all flesh: With illus. of the author...
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butleter began to write "The Way of All Flesh" about the year 1872, and was engaged upon it intermittently until 1884. It is therefore, to a great extent, contemporaneous with "Life and Habit," and may be taken as a practical illustration of the theory of heredity embodied...
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH BY SAMUEL BUTLER
The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published it...
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