399 pages
English language
Published Nov. 21, 1957 by Dodd, Mead.
The way of all flesh.
With illus. of the author, his environment and the setting of the book Great illustrated classics
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The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that 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 was accepted as part of the general reaction against Victorianism.
Subjects
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
- Children of clergy -- Fiction.
- Parent and child -- Fiction.
- Middle class -- Fiction.
- Young men -- Fiction.
- England -- Fiction.