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Original Title:	The Way of All Flesh
ISBN:	0486434664 (ISBN13: 9780486434667)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ernest Pontifex

The Way of All Flesh

Samuel Butler

Paperback | Pages: 315 pages

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Title	:	The Way of All Flesh
Author	:	Samuel Butler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 315 pages
Published	:	August 11th 2004 by Dover Publications (first published 1903)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Literature

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Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as the first twentieth-century novel. Samuel Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood shines an iconoclastic light on the hypocrisy of a Victorian clerical family's domestic life. It also foreshadows the crumbling of nineteenth-century bourgeois ideals in the aftermath of the First World War, as well as the ways in which succeeding generations have questioned conventional values.
Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement," this chronicle of the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex spans four generations, focusing chiefly on the relationship between Ernest and his father, Theobald. Written in the wake of Darwin's Origin of Species, it reflects the dawning consciousness of heredity and environment as determinants of character. Along the way, it offers a powerfully satirical indictment of Victorian England's major institutions—the family, the church, and the rigidly hierarchical class structure.

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The Way of All Flesh is the anti-Victorian novel. In the clergymans house the daughters play cards to determine which of them will get to marry the single suitor lured in through the front door (view spoiler)[and England expects every man to do his duty in luring him in no matter how far Jane Austen turns round in her grave (hide spoiler)], there is no weeping round the death bed (view spoiler)[ in a lovely moment the children of George Pontifex compose the following epitaph for him, pregnant

Originally published on my blog here in April 1999.Samuel Butler's posthumously published novel has been described as the first twentieth century novel (it was in fact completed in the 1880s though not published until the early 1900s). In its iconoclasm, it certainly marks a break with the mainstream of the nineteenth century, and foreshadows the way that the twentieth century has seen criticism and questioning of just about every conventional value.Butler's style and language are, to my mind,

Family drama set in Victorian times. Money seems to be the great denominator and the damage a family can do. Can't say any of the characters with the exception of Overton actually endeared themselves. from the Boxall/Guardian lists.

This one sort of recalled Of Human Bondage, another autobiographical novel where the protagonist bottoms out for a good chunk of the middle portion before finally (and predictably) ascending to a state of success/contentment. I think I'm finally figuring out that these early 20th-century bildungsromans aren't my cup of tea. Even when engagingly written, like this or Maugham's, and even when presenting philosophies with which I agree, they remain too sterile and (usually) bloated for me to

When this book came up as the October selection for the Classics Book Club (a "real life" book club here in Toronto rather than an online one, run by Chris of Eclectic Indulgence), I was pretty pleased because it meant getting around to reading a book I've had on my shelf for about fifteen years. The reason I had this - which, let's face it, isn't one of the more famous Classics you've heard of - is rather silly but I'll tell you all the same. I grew up watching A Room With a View - I've



The Way of All Flesh is a scathing indictment on Victorian middle-class society, its religion, and its religious practices. The ideas contained in the novel are worth considering, and the narrator is certainly gives thoughtful voice to many of the extremes of the time. And one cannot fault Butler for wanting to indict his parents, who subjected him to the same sort of physical, mental, and emotional assaults that Ernest endured. The problem was that Butler couched his ideas in a novel, and used