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A Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Ernest Pontifex, a young man who casts off his background and discovers himself. The awkward but likeable son of a tyrannical clergyman and a priggish mother, Ernest gleefully rejects his parents' respectability, and chooses instead to find his own way in the world.
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The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
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- Title
- The Way of All Flesh
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Samuel Butler
- Publisher
- Heron Books
- Format
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- Category
- World prose
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- A Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Ernest Pontifex, a young man who casts off his background and discovers himself. The awkward but likeable son of a tyrannical clergyman and a priggish mother, Ernest gleefully rejects his parents' respectability, and chooses instead to find his own way in the world.