431 pages
English language
Published April 13, 1998 by Modern Library.
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The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published it was accepted as part of the general reaction against Victorianism.
Subjects
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
- Children of clergy -- Fiction.
- Parent and child -- Fiction.
- Middle class -- Fiction.
- Young men -- Fiction.
- England -- Fiction.