The Way Of All Flesh

by Samuel Butler Publisher : International Collectors Library Year : 1961 Pages : 424 Binding : Leather Price : $49.95

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International Collectors Library, c1944 (1961.) Like new condition, tight and clean throughout. Leatherette binding with gilt decorations and titles. Ribbon marker attached. Samuel Butler was the son of a clergy man and grandson of a Bishop, yet religious doubts prevented him from taking holy orders himself. Although many of his early works were highly praised by Charles Darwin, he later produced a series of works of scientific controversy directed against Darwin's theory of natural selection. Butler's views won him the praise of G.B. Shaw. Shaw also admired his outspoken views on religion and money and Shaw praised them publicly in his preface to MAJOR BARBARA: "It drives one almost to despair of English Literature when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous "Way of All Flesh" making so little impression that when, some years later, I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh free and future-piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with nothing but vague cacklings about Ibsen and Nietzsche.Really, the English do not deserve to have great men." THE WAY OF ALL FLESH is Butler's most revealing work. He labored on it for many years and it was not published until one year after his death. The story is a semi-autobiographical novel about the effects on one man's life of four generations of inherited family traits. The book received much critical praise, headed again by Shaw, and reached the height of its popularity during the 1920s. This work should be of particular interest with the decoding of the human genome. 424 pages

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