The Way of All FleshPublished posthumously in 1903, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh is a semi-autobiographical novel about the author's unkind upbringing and troubled adulthood in a Christian family. Butler's life of Ernest Pontifex satirizes Victorian hypocrisy and the competitive nature of religious sects whose interests lie in increasing the number of their followers and not in salvation. |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER IX | 60 |
CHAPTER X | 65 |
CHAPTER XI | 71 |
CHAPTER XII | 79 |
CHAPTER XIII | 90 |
CHAPTER XIV | 100 |
CHAPTER XV | 107 |
CHAPTER XIX | 136 |
CHAPTER XX | 144 |
CHAPTER XXI | 149 |
CHAPTER XXII | 154 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 162 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 170 |
CHAPTER XXV | 175 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 180 |
CHAPTER XVI | 112 |
CHAPTER XVII | 122 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 127 |
CHAPTER XXVII | 185 |
CHAPTER XXVIII | 194 |
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