The Way of All Flesh
by Samuel Butler
655 pages~11 hrs
“To find his future, he must survive his heritage.”
Witness the razor-sharp dismantling of Victorian piety through the eyes of a young man fighting to escape his father's shadow. This classic satire exposes the hypocrisy of middle-class morality and the messy, necessary journey toward true independence across four generations.
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