1925 shops Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh Modern Reader's Series Hardcover

Product Name: 1925 shops Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh Modern Reader's Series Hardcover
1925 Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh Modern Reader's Series Hardcover The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler is a semi-autobiographical novel that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. The story traces the history of the Pontifex family from the shops early eighteenth century until about 1880 and focuses, for the most part, on the life of young Ernest Pontifex, the novels protagonist. Yet Ernest isnt born until 1835, in the books 17th chapter. Butler uses the first 16 chapters to provide a psychological portrait of the Pontifex family background as a means of allowing readers to understand what factors have gone into forming Ernests personality and the longevity of the chains of tradition he must break. Upon publication in 1903, the book seemed very much of its time, an early 20th century groundbreaker alongside the work of Sigmund Freud and Pablo Picasso. The Way of All Flesh seemed to celebrate the end of the Victorian age just as it was decidedly over. But in fact, Butler had written the boo.