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The Way of All Flesh

Name: The Way of All Flesh
Author: Samuel Butler

by Samuel Butler

1900•Family•421 pages

Taste attributes: familyhistoricalslowfresh & originalwholesomeheavyrealisticlineargrittyemotive & stirring

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Boxlist takeFresh and realistic: an emotional family novel, gritty rather than glossy. Best if you like real life over fantasy.

Taste details

Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: wholesome · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: gritty · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

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3.6 / 5

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About This Book

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.

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Characteristics

Where this book sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

FamilyHistorical

Subjects

Conflict of generationsChildren of clergyParent and childMiddle classYoung menEnglandAutobiographical fictionSocial life and customs

Details

Author: Samuel Butler
Published: 1900
Pages: 421
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Source: Open Library

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