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Informationen zum Autor Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was an author! literary critic! philosopher! painter and translator of Homer. After a disagreement about his career with his father! a clergyman who had been pressured into joining the Church by his own father! Butler left England to become a sheep farmer in New Zealand. The letters he wrote to his father from here formed the basis of his utopian satire Erewhon . The Way of All Flesh ! a semi-autobiographical exploration of Victorian family life and indictment of Victorian hypocrisy! was published posthumously in 1903. Klappentext A Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Ernest Pontifex! a young man who casts off his background and discovers himself. The awkward but likeable son of a tyrannical clergyman and a priggish mother! Ernest gleefully rejects his parents' respectability! and chooses instead to find his own way in the world. Zusammenfassung A Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Ernest Pontifex! a young man who casts off his background and discovers himself. The awkward but likeable son of a tyrannical clergyman and a priggish mother! Ernest gleefully rejects his parents' respectability! and chooses instead to find his own way in the world.
