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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." The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." Newly designed and typeset for modern readers by Waking Lion Press.

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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: 464
• EAN: 9781434101815
• ISBN: 9781434101815
• ID: 08492226
• Publisher: Waking Lion Press
• Weight: 700 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 155 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. July 2008

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