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S'està carregant… The Way of All Flesh (1903)de Samuel Butler
  
No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. A hellscreen in the form of a bildungsroman, flecked throughout with wonderful humanist musings on religion, literature, education, economics, and ethics. Samuel Butler is a truly great thinker. (  ) schumacherrr | Feb 21, 2022 |  Fiction  hpryor | Aug 8, 2021 | A huge book following lots of people leading boring lives; almost redeemed by its historical flavor but unfortunately let down by its self-righteous, intrusive narrator. Just like the Bible, and just as (un)interesting. (  ) HellCold | May 13, 2021 | Reading a book written over a century ago is a very different experience than reading our modern, high-impact, explicit stories of today. This book is a bit wordy. It is filled with the author's philosophy on life, morals, and religion. However, the characters are wonderful and full of life, and the message that men and women are mere mortals and full of flaws remains the same no matter how the text is worded. Poor Ernest Pontifex lives a interesting, eventful , and sometimes tragic life. Raised by parents who seemed to care more for money than their children, he suffers from poor self-esteem and a loss of identity. After enduring incarceration, an alcoholic wife, and many years of searching, he finally finds peace in following his heart. (  ) PaulaGalvan | Jan 20, 2021 | I find it quite hard to read and understand, with its theological and philosophical themes. The characters are quite tedious too like Ernest and his parents. And the most likable character, Ernest's aunt, had to die young. However, I did learn one thing from the book - compound interest works. Ernest's godfather had invested the money from his aunt for him and the money grew over the years, thus leaving more money for Ernest to inherit. (  ) siok | Jan 25, 2020 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"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.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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — S'està carregant…GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)823.8 — Literature English {except North American} English fiction Victorian period 1837-1900LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: (3.55)
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