description: 'The Way of All Flesh' 'exploded like a bomb' in Edwardian England. Based on Samuel Butler's own life &amp; published posthumously, it indicts Victorian bourgeois values as personified in five generations of the Pontifex family.
language: English
title: The Way of all Flesh
titlecomplete: The Way of all Flesh
characters: Ernest Pontifex
genres: British Literature, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, 19th Century, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Victorian
ratings_count: 9101
places: England
publisher: Signet Classics