description: A catalogue of touring exhibition ... Art Gallery 16 Dec. 1989-24 Feb. 1990.'The Way of All Flesh' 'exploded like a bomb' in Edwardian England. Based on Samuel Butler's own life and published posthumously, it indicts Victorian bourgeois values as personified in five generations of the Pontifex family.
language: English
title: The Way of All Flesh: Photographs, paintings watercolours and drawings by Samuel Butler 1835-1902
titlecomplete: The Way of All Flesh: Photographs, paintings watercolours and drawings by Samuel Butler 1835-1902
characters: Ernest Pontifex
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Novels, Classic Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 9097
places: England
publisher: Bolton Museum and Art Gallery