''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.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
448 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2006-02-23 |
| ISBN |
9780140430127 |
