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The Way of All Flesh (Penguin Classics)

by Samuel Butler; James Cochrane; Richard Hoggart
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
Binding
Paperback
Pages
206

Butler throws stones at Victorian family values with the precision of someone who survived them. Published posthumously because even a dead man knew this book would cause trouble. The satire cuts so deep it draws real blood - this isn't gentle mockery but surgical dismantling of everything the nineteenth century held sacred. For readers who recognize their own family dynamics in this merciless portrait, who understand that the most devastating critiques come from people who escaped with their sanity intact.

$5.00 SKU 9780140430127
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