Samuel Butler
Список книг автора Samuel ButlerThe Collected Works of Samuel Butler
This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 9222 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Odyssey • The Iliad • Erewhon; Or, Over the Range • The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography • The Way of All Flesh • Unconscious Memory • Ex Voto: An Account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia • The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars • Lives of the Poets, Volume Samuel Johnson • Essays on Life, Art and Science • Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son • God the Known and God the Unknown • Life and Habit • Aspects of LiteratureJohn Middleton Murry • Evolution, Old & New • The Collection at Saint John's College, CambridgeHenry Festing Jones and A. T. Bartholomew • Cambridge Pieces • The Humour of and Other Essays • Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • The Fair Haven • Canterbury Pieces • A First Year in Canterbury Settlement • Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification • Selections from Previous Works • etc.
The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh traces four generations of the Pontifex family. The story is narrated by Overton, godfather to the central character Ernest. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, story traces Ernest's emergence from previous generations of the Pontifex family. John Pontifex was a carpenter; his son George rises in the world to become a publisher; George's son Theobald, pressed by his father to become a minister, is manipulated into marrying Christina, the daughter of a clergyman; the main character Ernest Pontifex is the eldest son of Theobald and Christina. Ernest has an antagonistic relationship with his hypocritical and domineering parents. His aunt Alethea is aware of this relationship, but dies before she can fulfill her aim of counteracting the parents' malign influence on the boy. However, shortly before her death she secretly passes a small fortune into Overton's keeping, with the agreement that once Ernest is twenty-eight, he can receive it.
