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- 1992
- year of publication
- 424
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Hardcover
- cover
- Publisher
- Everyman
- ISBN-13
- 978-18-5715-118-3
- EAN
- 9781857151183
- Publication date
- 1992-12-17
- Book
- The Way of All Flesh · 5 editions
The publisher on this edition
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) made one reputation during his lifetime with his Utopian satire Erewhon , and a second reputation after his death with The Way of All Flesh , published posthumously. This novel, the story of Ernest Pontifex, is a thinly disguised autobiography in which Butler brutally but hilariously savages the financial, sexual, familial and spiritual hypocrisies of late Victorian England.
