The Way of All Flesh
OCTOBER 2010
Fiction
An Audio&eBook Classic Free eBook Included
Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler’s autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood satirizes Victorian hypocrisy in its chronicle of the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex. Along the way, it offers a powerful indictment of nineteenth-century England’s major institutions.
“I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.” With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler’s death, the novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth “in the bosom of a Christian family.” With irony, wit, and sometimes rancor, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning inside-out the conventional novel of a family’s life through several generations.
Read by Antony Ferguson
Category: Fiction/Classics Running Time: 17 hrs 30 min - Unabridged Territory: World English On Sale Date: 10/11/2010 Trade 9781400119660 14 Audio CDs $35.99 Library 9781400149667 14 Audio CDs $85.99 MP3 9781400169665 2 MP3-CDs $27.99
The Way of All Flesh tells the story of Ernest Pontifex and his struggles with Victorian mores, his restrictive, highly religious family, and Victorian society itself. Butler is remembered as one of the greatest of the anti-Victorians, whose ideas reflected accurately the new, more liberal society that was to come following the death of England’s great Queen, and the beginning of a new era. Marketing
• Tantor Classics now include PDF eBooks, each of which contains the full text of the book • First published in 1903
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, which remain in use to this day. Antony Ferguson, a native of London, England, won the award for best actor as Jimmy Porter in an award-winning production of Look Back in Anger and has worked Off Broadway, in regional theater, and on national tours, where he specialized in classical theater.
• A Modern Library Pick
Audiobook Includes Companion eBook
• Easy to use—includes automatic startup, full instructions, and table of contents • Keyword search and navigation • Printable PDF format is compatible with eReaders, PCs, and Laptops • Available in choice of three formats: Trade CD, Library CD, or MP3-CD
On-screen view of eBook
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Also Available from Tantor James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ISBN 13: 9781400106967
Fiction
An Audio&eBook Classic Free eBook Included
Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler’s autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood satirizes Victorian hypocrisy in its chronicle of the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex. Along the way, it offers a powerful indictment of nineteenth-century England’s major institutions.
“I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.” With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler’s death, the novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth “in the bosom of a Christian family.” With irony, wit, and sometimes rancor, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning inside-out the conventional novel of a family’s life through several generations.
Read by Antony Ferguson
Category: Fiction/Classics Running Time: 17 hrs 30 min - Unabridged Territory: World English On Sale Date: 10/11/2010 Trade 9781400119660 14 Audio CDs $35.99 Library 9781400149667 14 Audio CDs $85.99 MP3 9781400169665 2 MP3-CDs $27.99
The Way of All Flesh tells the story of Ernest Pontifex and his struggles with Victorian mores, his restrictive, highly religious family, and Victorian society itself. Butler is remembered as one of the greatest of the anti-Victorians, whose ideas reflected accurately the new, more liberal society that was to come following the death of England’s great Queen, and the beginning of a new era. Marketing
• Tantor Classics now include PDF eBooks, each of which contains the full text of the book • First published in 1903
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, which remain in use to this day. Antony Ferguson, a native of London, England, won the award for best actor as Jimmy Porter in an award-winning production of Look Back in Anger and has worked Off Broadway, in regional theater, and on national tours, where he specialized in classical theater.
• A Modern Library Pick
Audiobook Includes Companion eBook
• Easy to use—includes automatic startup, full instructions, and table of contents • Keyword search and navigation • Printable PDF format is compatible with eReaders, PCs, and Laptops • Available in choice of three formats: Trade CD, Library CD, or MP3-CD
On-screen view of eBook
Tantor a
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FOR MORE INFORMATION Toll Free 877.782.6867 Tantor Audio Fax 888.782.7821 2 Business Park Road www.tantor.com Old Saybrook, CT 06475
Also Available from Tantor James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ISBN 13: 9781400106967
