The Way of All Flesh

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The Way of All Flesh

Author : Samuel Butler

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Highlights

English

Language

NA

Edition

400

Pages

9781853262289

ISBN-13

1853262289

ISBN-10

Wordsworth Classics

Publisher

198 mm

Height

129 mm

Width

21 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butlers 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, Butlers scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous h Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butlers 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, Butlers 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.