The Way of All Flesh
New York: Doubleday, 1944.
Price: $19.50
Hardcover. Later. Illustrated by Andre Durenceau. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Slipcase. Spine brown on cover. Bright red cloth cover with gold gilt design on front. Shelf rubbing to slipcase. Slight tears on edges of slipcase.
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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