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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Way of All Flesh
• Author: Samuel Butler
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9780140430127
• ISBN: 0140430121
• ID: 04023939
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 332 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 128 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. February 2006

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