The way of all flesh
By: Samuel Butler.
Edition: 1998 Modern Library pbk. ed.
Series: The Modern Library classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Conflict of generations -- Fiction.; Children of clergy -- Fiction.; Parent and child -- Fiction.; Middle class -- Fiction.; Young men -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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."