by Samuel Butler · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621785
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«The Way of All Flesh» is Samuel Butler's novel published by Penguin Classics in paperback, with 384 pages and English text.
It narrates the life of Ernest Pontifex and his attempt to escape the rigid religious education imposed by his family, set in a Victorian society full of hypocrisy. The ironic and satirical tone, with autobiographical traits, turns the story into a settling of scores with the bourgeois values of the era.
The work appeared posthumously in 1903, a year after the author's death. This edition, from the Penguin Popular Classics collection, was published on May 25, 1995.
For readers of classics who enjoy social satire and criticism of Victorian society.
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted.
