# 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: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-118-3
- Pages: 424
- Published: 1992-12-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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.