Way of All Flesh - Couverture souple

Butler, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0451001753 ISBN 13 : 9780451001757

Editeur : New American Library, 1950

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Introduction vii Shaws perversities and ironies came from. The foundation i)f Etitlers style is tlic paradox; moral dynamics arc reversed; the unpardonable sin is conventionality. His masterpiece answers no questions; solves no problems; chases away no perplexities. Every reader becomes an interrogation point. Butler rubs our thoughts the wrong way. As axiom after axiom is ruthlessly attacked, we pick over our minds for some missile to throw at him. It is a good thing for every man and woman whose brain happens to be in activity to read this amazingly c.texer, originaj Lbrnian LfU abplica Inovel. And for those wbose brains are in captivity it may smash some fetters. Every one who understands what he reads will take an inventory of his own rehgious and moral stock. Butler delighted in the role of A dvocatus DiaboH. In his NoU-B oaks he has the follo Vnigapdlogy for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have heard niy one side of the case. God has written all the books. A ell. He certainly did not wite this one; He permitted he Devil to have his hour. VT he worst misfortune that can happen to any person, says Butler, is to lose his money; the second is to lose his health; and the loss of reputation is a bad third, Mle seems to have regarded the death of his father as ffie most fortunate event in his own life; for it made him financially independent. He never quite forgave the old man for hanging on till he .-as eighty years old. He ridiculed tlie Bishop of CarI Ic for saying that we long lo meet our parents in the tworld. Speaking for myself, I have no wish to see :y fatljer again, and I think it likely that the Bishop of nrlisle would not be more eager to see his tlian I mine. I clchisedec was a really happy man. He was without iher, without mother, and without descent. He was II incarnate bachelor. He was a horn orphan. CJ nc rraaon why The i Pay uf All P
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Biographie de l'auteur

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Shrewsbury and St John’s College Cambridge and, after a disagreement with his father about his choice of career, left England to become a sheep farmer in New Zealand, where he stayed until 1864. On his return to England, he took up residence in Clifford’s Inn where he stayed until his death. He began to study painting and worked at it for ten years, exhibiting occasionally at the Royal Academy. In 1872 he anonymously published Erewhon which was based on the letters he wrote to his father from New Zealand. This was followed by The Fair Haven, an attack on the Resurrection, making clear the religious skepticism which had turned Butler against a career in the church.

In the years that followed, Butler wrote several works attacking contemporary scientific ideas, in particular Darwin’s theory of natural selection. In 1881 he began to write books on art and travel, the first of these being Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino. Around this time, he was also experimenting with musical composition and collaborated with Festing Jones on the oratorio entitled Narcissus. An interest in Homer led him to write lively translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey and he formed the theory that these two works were written by a woman. Butler’s partly autobiographical work The Way of All Flesh was the result of many years’ labor and appeared posthumously in 1903.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New American Library
• Date d'édition: 1950
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0451001753
• ISBN 13: 9780451001757
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible