The Way of All Flesh

Name: The Way of All Flesh
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.7 (6 reviews)
Author: Samuel Butler
ISBN: 9781455102129

Author: Samuel Butler

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 15 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Every generation finds in The Way of All Flesh a reaffirmation of youths rightful struggle against the tyranny of harsh parents and its admirable will for freedom of personal expression. This is a fascinating character study of a young man who survives the influence of a hateful, hypocritical father, a doting mother, and a debauched wife to emerge as a decent, happy human being. It is also a stinging satire of Victorian gentry and of the same traits that exist in our time.

About Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, which remain in use to this day.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on September 20, 2023

This is the story of a poor little rich boy. I don’t know about you, but I have practically zero sympathy for poor little rich boys. Call me flint-hearted. His name is Ernest Pontifex. The goose was not born that Ernest could say boo to. He is a spineless, feeble kid to be sure, but even had he been......more

Goodreads review by Baba on February 17, 2022

A semi-biographical story of four generations of the Pontifex family by Samuel Butler, that he only allowed to be published after his death that takes apart Victorian society focusing on the unrelenting hypocrisy of, in this case the monied religious family focusing on the detrimental effects of pat......more

Goodreads review by Stratos on May 07, 2020

Άλλο ένα αριστούργημα το οποίο σου δημιουργεί θλίψη για τα σημερινά ...αριστουργήματα που κυκλοφορούν κατά δεκάδες. Δεν περιγράφει αλλά διεισδύει στους χαρακτήρες, στη διάπλαση τους, στην εξέλιξη τους αναδεικνύοντας τις κρυφές αυτές λεπτομέρειες της ψυχοσύνθεσης των πρωταγωνιστούν που δύσκολα γραφίδ......more