Author: BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
Title: The way of all flesh / Samuel Butler ; pictures by Robert Ward Johnson, introduction by Theodore Dreiser
Description: New York : The Heritage Press 1936. Heritage Press Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Front hinge starting. In a grey slipcase. slightly edge-worn. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 588 pages; Physical description: xxx. 588 p. : illus. ; 20 cm. Notes: The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as the first 20th-century novel. Samuel Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood satirizes Victorian hypocrisy in its chronicle of the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex. Along the way. it offers a powerful indictment of 19th-century England's major institutions-the family. the church. and the class structure. Genre: English fiction -- Novel.Weight in Kg appr.:

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