The Way of All Flesh

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Butler Klappentext '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. Zusammenfassung Throws a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, this novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth 'in the bosom of a Christian family'.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Butler, James Cochrane, Richard Hoggart
• Assisted by: James Cochrane (Editor), Richard Hogart (Editor), Richard Hoggart (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2006
• EAN: 9780140430127
• ISBN: 978-0-14-043012-7
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature