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19 rows ·  · The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler - Free Ebook. Project Gutenberg. 66, free ebooks. 22 Author: Butler, Samuel, The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler is a semi-autobiographical novel that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. The story traces the history of the Pontifex family from the early eighteenth century until about and focuses, for the most part, on the life of young Ernest Pontifex, the novel’s protagonist. Yet Ernest isn’t born until , in the book’s 17th chapter. The Way of All Flesh () is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between and , it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler did not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published it was accepted as part of the general reaction against Victorianism/5(27).

The Way of All Flesh () is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between and , 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 reaction against Victorianism. Way of All Flesh (Literary Heritage) by Butler, Samuel and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler is a semi-autobiographical novel that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. The story traces the history of the Pontifex family from the early eighteenth century until about and focuses, for the most part, on the life of young Ernest Pontifex, the novel's protagonist.

The Way Of All Flesh describes the life of an imaginary godson (and protegee) of the the first-person recounter of the story, a certain Mr. Overton. The godson, Ernest, is reared in the stifling atmosphere of a Church of England bigoted and quite repulsive clergyman, his bigoted wife, and their two other similarly odious offspring. Samuel Butler (4 December - 18 June ) was the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon () and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in Both have remained in print ever since. The Way of All Flesh (sometimes called Ernest Pontifex, or the Way of All Flesh) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between and , it traces four generations of the Pontifex family.