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The Way of All Flesh
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6,49 € |
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| Verlag: | Phoemixx Classics eBooks |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 24.12.2021 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783986773304 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 555 |
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Beschreibungen
The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler - A semi-autobiographical novel that attacks Victorian era hypocrisy as it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published, it was accepted as part of the general revulsion against Victorianism.
Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh, his two best-known works, but also extending to examinations of Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey which remain in use to this day.See also: Samuel H. Butcher, Anglo-Irish classicist, who also undertook prose translations of Homer's works (in collaboration with Andrew Lang
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