The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library)
by:
Samuel Butler (author)
Samuel Butler was among the most wide-ranging of the accomplished crew of late Victorian writers to which be belonged -- a forceful controversialist in the debates that surrounded Darwin's theory of evolution, a painter who sometimes exhibited at the Royal Academy, an idiosyncratic critic and a...
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Samuel Butler was among the most wide-ranging of the accomplished crew of late Victorian writers to which be belonged -- a forceful controversialist in the debates that surrounded Darwin's theory of evolution, a painter who sometimes exhibited at the Royal Academy, an idiosyncratic critic and a gifted travel writer, and even, in his early years, a
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679417187 (0679417184)
Publish date: January 11th 1993
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
19th Century,
English Literature
L'homme qui réussit est celui qui voit plus loin que ses voisins, mais pas plus loin qu'ils ne seront capables de voir eux-mêmes, le jour où on le leur apprendra, et pas assez loin pour les inquiéter. Il vaut beaucoup mieux ne pas savoir assez que de savoir trop. Les gens désapprouvent le "pas assez...
Introduction--The Way of all FleshNotes
Introduction--The Way of all FleshNotes
No offense to Butler, but The Way of All Flesh reads like a watered-down Dickens novel, with less excitement and flash.Ernest is wishy-washy and easily influenced, although by the end he finds himself and is doing work which he enjoys. The whole story is about him trying to understand who he is and ...
I was looking forward to reading this book. I enjoy reading classic literature from little-known authors. However, I was overall disappointed. There were long discourses in the book, where Samuel Butler ranted about things in Victorian life which irritated him. His main ire was directed toward t...
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