by Samuel Butler · Sahara Publisher Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9782382261248
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«The Way of All Flesh» is Samuel Butler's semi-autobiographical novel, published by Sahara Publisher Books in hardback (418 pages, in English).
The novel follows Ernest Pontifex from his childhood in a Victorian family to adulthood, showing how rigid social and family conventions shape his life. Samuel Butler, drawing on his own experience, criticises the hypocrisy of Victorian morality across several generations of the Pontifex family.
Written between 1873 and 1884, the novel was published posthumously in 1903. The Modern Library ranked it 12th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century (1998).
Recommended for readers of English literary classics and Victorian fiction, as well as for those seeking coming-of-age novels with social criticism.
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted.
