The Way of All Flesh
New York: The Modern Library, (1950).
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later printing. Introduction by Morton Dauwen Zabel. Owner name, a few pages with small spots, text block edges faintly soiled, spine slightly cocked, corners and spine ends modestly rubbed, spine faded, good only. A semi-autobiographical novel, published posthumously.
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Samuel Butler
birth name: Samuel Butler
born: 12/4/1835
died: 6/18/1902
Biography
English novelist, essayist, and critic whose satire Erewhon (1872) foreshadowed the collapse of the VIctorian illusion of eternal progress. The Way of All Flesh (1903), his autobiographical novel, is generally considered his masterpiece. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore