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The Way of All Flesh
(Paperback, 1987)
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Author: Samuel Butler
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH is a thinly disguised account of Butler's own Victorian childhood. Butler began...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0452008824
ISBN-13: 9780452008823
Dec 1987
Publisher: New Amer Library
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH is a thinly disguised account of Butler's own Victorian childhood. Butler began the work in 1872; it was finally published in 1903, a year after his death. With irony and wit, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning the conventional family-history novel inside-out.
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "When I was a small boy at the beginning of this century, I remember an old man who wore knee breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a stick."
Industry Reviews
"[Butler] uses ordinary conversational English idiom, managing to seem perfectly at ease in it, and continually showing how rich in expressive turns and formulations and apt and vivid words it really is....This is the perfection of what one loosely thinks of as the 'plain' style and which of course is not 'plain' at all, but fashioned with hard labor and the most sensitive and resourceful skill. In writing Butler attained that 'grace after the flesh' for which Ernest pined in vain."
Introduction - P. N. Furbank
"One of the great books of the world....Butler is the only man known to history who has immortalized and actually endeared himself by parricide and matricide long drawn out. He slew the good name (and it was such a very good name!) of his father and mother so reasonably, so wittily, so humorously, and even in a ghastly way so charitably, that he convinced us that he was engaged in an execution and not in a murder."
Pen Portraits and Revisions - George Bernard Shaw (01/01/1932)
"If the house caught on fire, the Victorian novel I would rescue from the flames would be not 'Vanity Fair' or 'Bleak House' but Samuel Butler's 'The Way of All Flesh'. It is read, I believe, mostly by the young, bent on making out a case against their elders, but Butler was fifty when he stopped working on it, and no reader much under that age is likely to appreciate the full beauty of its horrors, which are not the horrors of the Gothic novel but of family life."
New Yorker - William Maxwell (09/13/1962)
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