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The Way of All Flesh (Penguin Classics)
by Samuel Butler
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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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The Way of All Flesh (Penguin Classics)
August 30, 1966, Penguin Classics
in English
0140430121 9780140430127
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The Way of All Flesh
First published in 1966
Subjects
Classic Literature, Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Social life and customs, Historical fiction, Manners and customs, Domestic fictionWork Description
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.
The Way of All Flesh (Penguin Classics)
This edition was published in August 30, 1966 by Penguin Classics
First Sentence
"WHEN I was small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with help of a stick."
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