The Way of All Flesh

Description:

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.

subjects: Conflict of generations,  Fiction,  Children of clergy,  Parent and child,  Middle class,  Young men,  Fiction, sagas,  Parent and child, fiction,  England, fiction,  Classic Literature,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Autobiographical fiction,  Social life and customs,  Historical fiction,  Manners and customs,  Domestic fiction,  Children's fiction,  Great britain, fiction,  England in fiction,  Parent and child in fiction,  Middl126e class,  Young men in fiction,  Children of clergy in fiction,  Conflict of generations in fiction,  Middle class in fiction,  English fiction,  Large type books,  Fiction, general,  Tariff,  Protectionism,  Tarif douanier,  Protectionnisme,  Trovillion Private Press, Herrin, Ill

People: Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

Places: England,  Great Britain

Times: 19th century,  20th century