The Way of All Flesh - Brossura

Butler, Samuel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375752498 ISBN 13: 9780375752490

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 1998

Riassunto

Originally written in the 1880s and published posthumously in 1903, a semiautobiographical novel examines the complex relationships that exist in the Pontifex family as they reflect the hypocrisy of middle-class life in Victorian England. Reprint.

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Recensione:

It is read, I believe, mostly by the young, bent on making out a case against their elders, but Butler was fifty when he stopped working on it, and no reader much under that age is likely to appreciate the full beauty of its horrors. . . . Every contemporary novelist with a developed sense of irony is probably in some measure, directly or indirectly, indebted to Butler, who had the misfortune to be a twentieth-century man born in the year 1835 --The New Yorker

L'autore:

SAMUEL BUTLER (1835-1902), the freethinking iconoclast whom George Bernard Shaw deemed "the greatest English writer of the latter half of the nineteenth century,  also satirized Victorian society in Erewhon (1872) and Erewhon Revisited (1901). His work strongly influenced such writers as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and James Joyce.

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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375752498
• ISBN 13: 9780375752490
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448