The way of all flesh
(1998, original release: 1903)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/BUTLER,S

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/BUTLER,S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Modern Library, 1998
EDITION
1998 Modern Library paperback edition
DESCRIPTION

vii, 431 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0375752498, 9780375752490, 9780375752490, 0375752498 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement.""--Jacket

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