Samuel Butler – The Way of All Flesh

About the book:
'I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.’ With „The Way of All Flesh”, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler’s death, the novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth 'in the bosom of a Christian family’. With irony, wit and sometimes rancour, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning inside-out the conventional novel of a family’s life through several generations.   źródło opisu: http://penguinbooks.co.za/book/way-all-flesh/9780140430127 źródło okładki: http://penguinbooks.co.za/book/way-all-flesh/9780140430127