The Way of All Flesh (Hardcover)

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The Way of All Flesh is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. The narrative follows the development and tribulations of Ernest Pontifex, a weak boy starved of familial affection, who grows up to reject the tenets of his formal education and his father’s authoritarian brand of Christianity.