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The Way of All Flesh is often considered to be Samuel Butler’s masterpiece, and is frequently included in many lists of best English-language novels of the 20th century. Despite this acclaim, Butler never published it in his lifetime—perhaps because the novel, a scathing, funny, and poignant satire of Victorian life, would have hit his contemporaries too close to home.
The novel traces four generations of the Pontifex family, though the central character is Ernest Pontifex, the third-generation wayward son. The reader follows Ernest through the eyes of his watchful godfather, Mr. Overton, as he strikes out from home to find his way in life. His struggles along the way illustrate the complex relationships between a son and his family, and especially his father; all while satirizing Victorian ideas about family, church, marriage, and schooling.
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Conflict of generations, Fiction, Children of clergy, Parent and child, Middle class, Young men, Fiction, sagas, Parent and child, fiction, England, fiction, Classic Literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Autobiographical fiction, Social life and customs, Historical fiction, Manners and customs, Domestic fiction, Children's fiction, Great britain, fiction, England in fiction, Parent and child in fiction, Middl126e class, Young men in fiction, Children of clergy in fiction, Conflict of generations in fiction, Middle class in fiction, English fiction, Large type books, Fiction, generalPeople
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Way of All Flesh: By Samuel Butler - Illustrated
2017, Independently Published
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The Way of All Flesh (Large Print Edition)
May 5, 2007, BiblioBazaar
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The Way of all Flesh - A Novel
January 1, 2006, Pomona Press
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The Way of All Flesh: Library Edition
January 2002, Blackstone Audiobooks
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The way of all flesh
1998, Modern Library
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Ernest Pontifex: or, The way of all flesh : a story of English domestic life
1993, Everyman
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The Way of All Flesh (Penguin Classics)
August 30, 1966, Penguin Classics
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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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