'I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.' With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, the novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth 'in the bosom of a Christian family'. With irony, wit and sometimes rancour, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning inside-out the conventional novel of a family's life through several generations.
By:
Samuel Butler Introduction by:
Richard Hoggart Edited by:
James Cochrane Imprint: Penguin Classics Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 326g ISBN:9780140430127 ISBN 10: 0140430121 Pages: 448 Publication Date:23 February 2006 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active