The Way of All Flesh
Author(s): Samuel Butler
Written in the 1880's and not published until 1903 after Butler's death, the semiautobiographical story of the Pontifex family savages the bourgeois Victorian family and its values.
General Information
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- : Random House Publishing Group
- : Random House Publishing Group
- : 0.358
- : 01 April 1999
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Samuel Butler
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : English
- : 400
More About The Product
SAMUEL BUTLER (1835-1902), the freethinking iconoclast whom George Bernard Shaw deemed "the greatest English writer of the latter half of the nineteenth century, also satirized Victorian society in Erewhon (1872) and Erewhon Revisited (1901). His work strongly influenced such writers as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and James Joyce.
