THE ATHENAEUMThe Way of All FleshSamuel Butler
Novel
The Way of All Flesh
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textFour generations of the Pontifex family, and above all Ernest, crushed by a clergyman father and a pious mother and getting free of them very slowly. Samuel Butler, who also wrote Erewhon, worked on it for years and left it to be published after his death, in 1903. It takes the Victorian family apart from the inside.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 10 hr 55 min
- Where to find it
- The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #2084. In the public domain in the United States.