The way of all flesh
About this book
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.
Subjects
- autobiographical fiction
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- children of clergy
- children of clergy in fiction
- children's fiction
- classic literature
- conflict of generations
- conflict of generations in fiction
- domestic fiction
- england, fiction
- england in fiction
- english fiction
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, sagas
- great britain, fiction
- historical fiction
- large type books
- manners and customs
- middl126e class
- middle class
- middle class in fiction
- parent and child
- parent and child, fiction
- parent and child in fiction
- protectionism
- protectionnisme
- social life and customs
- tarif douanier
- tariff
- trovillion private press, herrin, ill
- young men
- young men in fiction