The Way of All Flesh

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.

Yayınevi

Aegypan

Yayın tarihi

1 Mart 2007

Sayfa sayısı

356

Dil

İngilizce

ISBN

9781603128391 · 1603128395

Konular

Conflict of generations, Fiction, Children of clergy, Parent and child, Middle class, Young men, Fiction, sagas, Parent and child, fiction