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The Way of All Flesh (English Library) Book
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Foyles
'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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Blackwell
'The Way of All Flesh' 'exploded like a bomb' in Edwardian England. Based on Samuel Butler's own life and published posthumously, it indicts Victorian bourgeois values as personified in five generations of the Pontifex family. 'I am the enfant...
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Pickabook
Samuel Butler, James Cochrane (Editor), Richard Hoggart
- 0140430121
- 9780140430127
- Samuel Butler
- 23 February 2006
- Penguin Classics
- Paperback (Book)
- 448
- New Impression
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