The Way of All Flesh

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ISBN-10: 0375752498
ISBN-13: 9780375752490
Publisher: Modern Library
Publish Date: 09/14/1998
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.20" W, 1.00" H

The Way of All Flesh

bySamuel Butler

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Overview

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.”

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Details

ISBN-10: 0375752498
ISBN-13: 9780375752490
Publisher: Modern Library
Publish Date: 09/14/1998
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.20" W, 1.00" H
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