Overview
Ernest Pontifex is born into a deeply religious Victorian family where obedience is demanded and individuality suppressed. As he grows, he confronts the crushing expectations of his parents, religious dogma, and the rigid values of society-ultimately seeking his own path through a maze of personal failure and philosophical awakening. The Way of All Flesh is a powerful, semi-autobiographical critique of Victorian morality, tracing one man's painful journey toward self-realization in a world built to deny it.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh, which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy.
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- ISBN-13: 9781434456588
- ISBN-10: 1434456587
- Publisher: Wildside Press
- Publish Date: April 2025
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.84 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.05 pounds
- Page Count: 378
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