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The Way of All Flesh
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Way of All Flesh
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Samuel Butler
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| Series | Modern Library 100 Best Novels |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:448 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 132 |
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| Category/Genre | Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780375752490
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.8 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Random House USA Inc
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| Imprint |
Modern Library Inc
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| Publication Date |
14 September 1998 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Written in the 1880's and not published until 1903 after Butler's death, the semiautobiographical story of the Pontifex family savages the bourgeois Victorian family and its values.
Author Biography
SAMUEL BUTLER (1835-1902), the freethinking iconoclast whom George Bernard Shaw deemed "the greatest English writer of the latter half of the nineteenth century,also satirized Victorian society in Erewhon (1872) and Erewhon Revisited (1901). His work strongly influenced such writers as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and James Joyce.
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