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The Way of All Flesh
Spine and front cover of the 1903 first edition
AuthorSamuel Butler
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreSemi-autobiographical novel
Social criticism
Set inEngland, c. 1765–1863
PublisherGrant Richards
Publication date
1903
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages423
OCLC8742883
Dewey Decimal
823.8
LC ClassPR4349 .B7
TextThe Way of All Flesh at Wikisource

The Way of All Flesh (originally titled Ernest Pontifex or the Way of All Flesh) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy.[1] Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published posthumously in 1903 as The Way of All Flesh it was accepted as part of the general reaction against Victorianism. Butler's first literary executor, R. A. Streatfeild, made substantial changes to Butler's manuscript. The original manuscript was first published in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or the Way of All Flesh by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, edited by Daniel F. Howard.[2]

The title is a quotation from the Douay–Rheims Bible's translation of the Biblical Hebrew expression, to "go the way of all the earth", meaning "to die", in the Books of Kings: "I am going the way of all flesh: take thou courage and shew thyself a man." (1 Kings 2:2).[3]

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Way of All Flesh twelfth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

  1. ^ Butler, Samuel (1903). The Way of All Flesh (First ed.). London: Grant Richards. Retrieved 11 October 2016 – via the Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Butler, Samuel (1964). Howard, Daniel F. (ed.). Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company – via the Internet Archive.
  3. ^ "1 Kings 2:2 I am going in the way of all the earth, and you shall be strong, and you shall be a man". studybible.info. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

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