The Way of All Flesh
by:
Samuel Butler (author)
Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement," Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood satirizes Victorian hypocrisy in its chronicle of the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex. Along the way, it offers a powerful indictment of...
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Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement," Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood satirizes Victorian hypocrisy in its chronicle of the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex. Along the way, it offers a powerful indictment of 19th-century England's major institutions.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486434667 (0486434664)
Publish date: August 11th 2004
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 320
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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