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The Way of All Flesh
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The Way of All Flesh (1903) (edit title/settings)

by Samuel Butler (Author) (edit contributors)

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The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." Written between... read more

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  • He did not yet know that the very worst way of getting hold of ideas is to go hunting expressly after them. The way to get them is to study something of which one is fond, and to note down whatever crosses one's mind in reference to it, either during study or relaxation, in a little note-book kept always in the waistcoat pocket.
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  • Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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  • Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.
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  • I fancy that there is some truth in the view which is being put forward nowadays, that it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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  • Why should the generations overlap one another at all? Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat little cells with ten or twenty thousand pounds each wrapped round us in Bank of England notes, and wake up, as the sphex wasp does, to find that its papa and mamma have not only left ample provision at its elbow, but have been eaten by sparrows some weeks before it began to live consciously on its own account?
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WHEN I was small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with help of a stick.

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This is book 13 of 93 in Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Board's List. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Grapes of Wrath, and followed by I, Claudius.

This is book 66 of 214 in Best English-Language Fiction of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and followed by The Joy Luck Club.

This book is in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This book is in Kunstlerroman. (community list)

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  1. Samuel Butler (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Grant Richards
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1903
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Page Count: 320

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