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The way of all flesh

Author: Samuel Butler
Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 1998.
Series: Modern Library classics.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1998 Modern Library pbk. edView all editions and formats
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"Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Autobiographical fiction
Bildungsromans
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902.
Way of all flesh.
New York : Modern Library, 1998
(OCoLC)607177703
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Samuel Butler
ISBN: 0375752498 9780375752490
OCLC Number: 26029400
Description: vii, 431 p. ; 21 cm.
Series Title: Modern Library classics.
Responsibility: Samuel Butler.
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"Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement.""--Jacket.

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