The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler
'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.
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Година:
2006
Издание:
New Impression
Издателство:
Penguin UK
Език:
english
Страници:
520
ISBN 10:
0141958545
ISBN 13:
9780141958545
Серия:
Penguin Classics
Файл:
EPUB, 2.09 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2006