The Way Of All Flesh: Samuel Butler (Everyman's Library CLASSICS) - Hardcover

Butler, Samuel

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9781857151183: The Way Of All Flesh: Samuel Butler (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

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ISBN 10: 1857151186 ISBN 13: 9781857151183

Publisher: Everyman, 1992

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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. . . . Every contemporary novelist with a developed sense of irony is probably in some measure, directly or indirectly, indebted to Butler, who had the misfortune to be a twentieth-century man born in the year 1835 --The New Yorker

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SAMUEL BUTLER (1835-1902), the freethinking iconoclast whom George Bernard Shaw deemed the greatest English writer of the latter half of the nineteenth century, also satirized Victorian society in Erewhon (1872) and Erewhon Revisited (1901). His work strongly influenced such writers as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and James Joyce.

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