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    The Way of All Flesh

    1940 · Drama · 1h 26m

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  1. About The Way of All Flesh. The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903, has been referred to as a delayed-action bomb. The novel did not cause an immediate sensation, but when, in 1907, the leading dramatist of the day, George Bernard Shaw, called Butler a neglected genius and praised The Way of All Flesh as one of the greatest novels ...

  2. Overview. The Way of All Flesh is a novel by Samuel Butler, written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903. Drawing on his life experiences, Butler follows several generations of the fictional Pontifex family to examine the transmission of Victorian values from one generation to the next, with particular attention to the roles of ...

  3. May 12, 2021 · Samuel Butler began to write “The Way of All Flesh” about the year 1872, and was engaged upon it intermittently until 1884. It is therefore, to a great extent, contemporaneous with “Life and Habit,” and may be taken as a practical illustration of the theory of heredity embodied in that book.

  4. Oct 13, 2008 · About “The Way of All Flesh”. “The Way of all Flesh” is the 4th studio album of the band, released in 2008. Like the previous album “From Mars to Sirius”, the cover was drawn by...

  5. About The Way of All Flesh. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Samuel Butler was among the most wide-ranging of the accomplished crew of late Victorian writers to which be belonged — a forceful controversialist in the debates that surrounded Darwin’s theory of evolution, a painter who sometimes ...

  6. Feb 1, 2000 · Most Recently Updated. May 12, 2021. Copyright Status. Public domain in the USA. Downloads. 336 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

  7. May 23, 2012 · Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as the first twentieth-century novel. Samuel Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood shines an iconoclastic light on the hypocrisy of a Victorian clerical family's domestic life.

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