The way of all flesh: Book Guide, Author and Facts
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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.
Quick facts about The way of all flesh
- Title: The way of all flesh
- Author: Samuel Butler
- First published: 1900
- Genre: conflict of generations, fiction, children of clergy
- OpenLibrary ID: OL22372W
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I am the enfant terrible of literature and science.
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The way of all flesh was written by Samuel Butler.
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