# The Way of All Flesh

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- Book: [The Way of All Flesh](https://www.bookquiver.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh) ([The Way of All Flesh.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh.md))
- Authors: [Samuel Butler](https://www.bookquiver.com/samuel-butler)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4195-854-5
- Published: 2006-02-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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.