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The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents a relaxation from the religious outlook from a Calvinistic approach, which is presented...
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"If the house caught on fire, the Victorian novel I would rescue from the flames would be The Way of All Flesh," wrote William Maxwell in The New Yorker.
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They bring their stories to The Marriage Bed, All who testify get a reply, often many replies, so that each thread of The Marriage Bed is a scroll, a call and response to make up for an education on sexual need and the ways of the flesh that private shame, organized religion, and the state denied to most of them.
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It seems that, for Samuel Butler, "The Way of All Flesh" means that all people - at various times, in various ways, and with varying degrees of destructiveness - use the ideas of religion and righteousness as a cloak for mere manipulation and the forcing of one's will.
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This is an XHTML document was prepared with borrowed Gutenberg etext for Arthur's Classic Novels. Project Gutenberg etext was prepared by David Price. XHTML markup by Arthur Wendover. September 30, 2002. (See source file for details.) This is the etext version of the book The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, taken from...
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The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler etexts & ebooks THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler CHAPTER I When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a stick.
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While one might question the romance of paranoia or alcoholism, at least one of these two authors apparently believed his ideas came from somewhere without, and by all accounts (or at least Ellis') went loony trying to come to grips with the reality of his imagination. I love the way he plays with the English language,
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Free eBook: The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler (1835-1902). A semi-autobiographical novel that attacks Victorian era hypocrisy as it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published, it was accepted as part of the general revulsion against...
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The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler I thought it one of the Best Novels of All Time I read the preface and found out that this is a 20th century novel only by a technicality; it was published in 1903, but written in the 1870s.
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