Samuel Butler - The Way Of All Flesh (1966) - eBay (item 180396798681 end time Jan-10-10 11:22:22 PST)

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Author:	Samuel Butler	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Viking Pr	ISBN-10:	0140430121
ISBN-13:	9780140430127	Subject:	Religious
Publication Year:	1966	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	--
Condition:	Good

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Synopsis
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH is a thinly disguised account of Butler's own Victorian childhood. Butler began the work in 1872; it was finally published in 1903, a year after his death. With irony and wit, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning the conventional family-history novel inside-out.
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Series:	Penguin Classics Series

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Height:	7.8 in.
Width:	5.3 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	10.4 oz.

Publisher's Note
'The Way of All Flesh' 'exploded like a bomb' in Edwardian England. Based on Samuel Butler's own life and published posthumously, it indicts Victorian bourgeois values as personified in five generations of the Pontifex family. 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. A novel of keen perceptions, THE WAY OF ALL FLESH, as Richard Hoggart remarks in his Introduction, 'blows a refreshing wind of ironic laughter and caricature through some rooms of the mind that had become very musty indeed' and shows the fascinating interplay between art and the raw material of a man's life.
Industry reviews
"[Butler] uses ordinary conversational English idiom, managing to seem perfectly at ease in it, and continually showing how rich in expressive turns and formulations and apt and vivid words it really is....This is the perfection of what one loosely thinks of as the 'plain' style and which of course is not 'plain' at all, but fashioned with hard labor and the most sensitive and resourceful skill. In writing Butler attained that 'grace after the flesh' for which Ernest pined in vain." Introduction - P. N. Furbank "One of the great books of the world....Butler is the only man known to history who has immortalized and actually endeared himself by parricide and matricide long drawn out. He slew the good name (and it was such a very good name!) of his father and mother so reasonably, so wittily, so humorously, and even in a ghastly way so charitably, that he convinced us that he was engaged in an execution and not in a murder." Pen Portraits and Revisions - George Bernard Shaw (01/01/1932) "If the house caught on fire, the Victorian novel I would rescue from the flames would be not 'Vanity Fair' or 'Bleak House' but Samuel Butler's 'The Way of All Flesh'. It is read, I believe, mostly by the young, bent on making out a case against their elders, but Butler was fifty when he stopped working on it, and no reader much under that age is likely to appreciate the full beauty of its horrors, which are not the horrors of the Gothic novel but of family life." New Yorker - William Maxwell (09/13/1962)

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