
The Way of All Flesh
Author: Samuel Butler
Narrator: Ethan Reynolds
Unabridged: 17 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Robert Larson
Published: 10/07/2024
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Author: Samuel Butler
Narrator: Ethan Reynolds
Unabridged: 17 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Robert Larson
Published: 10/07/2024
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, which remain in use to this day.
This is the story of a poor little rich boy. I don’t know about you, but I have practically zero sympathy for poor little rich boys. Call me flint-hearted. His name is Ernest Pontifex. The goose was not born that Ernest could say boo to. He is a spineless, feeble kid to be sure, but even had he been......more
A semi-biographical story of four generations of the Pontifex family by Samuel Butler, that he only allowed to be published after his death that takes apart Victorian society focusing on the unrelenting hypocrisy of, in this case the monied religious family focusing on the detrimental effects of pat......more
There's a poem by Kahlil Gibran which goes like this: "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts,......more
... δεν είναι άλλη, παρά εκείνη της λογοτεχνίας. Η ανθρώπινη κατάσταση, όπως ξεδιπλώνεται αβίαστα μέσα από την πένα ενός μεγάλου συγγραφέα. Χρώμα πάνω στο χρώμα, ένας καμβάς ζωντανός, ολόφρεσκος, όπως την ημέρα εκείνη που ο δημιουργός του τον παρέδωσε στην αιωνιότητα. Ο μεν βίος βραχύς, η δε τέχνη μ......more
"Η κοινή ανθρώπινη μοίρα" Ένα βιβλίο που φτάνοντας στη μέση του με προβλημάτισε. Όντας αποστασιοποιημένη από θρησκευτικές ιδεολογίες οφείλω να ομολογήσω πως με κούρασε κ με εκνεύρισε. Όμως, προχωρώντας την ανάγνωσή του κ δίνοντάς του χώρο, διαπίστωσα πως πρόκειται για κάτι παραπάνω. Σαφέστατα υπάρχο......more