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An edition of The way of all flesh (1900)

The way of all flesh

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  • 7 Have read

"With wit, irony, and sometimes, rancor, Butler savages the smug values and beliefs of a Victorian family."

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The Macmillan Company
Language
English
Pages
446

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Subjects

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, general Tariff Protectionism Tarif douanier Protectionnisme Trovillion Private Press, Herrin, Ill

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Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

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England Great Britain

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19th century 20th century

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Cover of: The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh
2019, Standard Ebooks
in English
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Way of All Flesh: By Samuel Butler - Illustrated
2017, Independently Published
in English
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Way of all flesh
1995, Penguin
in English - New ed.
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The way of all flesh
1977, Hart Pub. Co.
in English
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The Way of All Flesh
1960, Signet Classics
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The way of all flesh
1960, New American Library
in English
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The way of all flesh
1945, Literary Classics Book Club
in English
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The way of all flesh
1925, The Macmillan Company
in English
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The way of all flesh
1917, Boni and Liveright
in English
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The way of all flesh
1903, Grant Richards
in English
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The way of all flesh
1900, Distributed by Heron Books
in English

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Edition Notes

"Biography and criticism": p. xviii.

Published in
New York
Series
Modern readers' series, Modern readers' series (Macmillan Company)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.8
Library of Congress
PZ3.B9779 W10

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii pages, 1 leaf, 446 pages including frontispiece
Number of pages
446

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL32966687M
Internet Archive
wayofallflesh00butl_1
LCCN
25025988
OCLC/WorldCat
4219667

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL22372W

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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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