Samuel Butler (1835-1902) ganó una reputación durante su vida con su sátira utópica Erewhon, y una segunda reputación después de su muerte con The Way of All Flesh, publicado póstumamente. Esta novela, la historia de Ernest Pontifex, es una autobiografía apenas disfrazada en la que Butler brutal pero hilarantemente salvaje las hipocresías financieras, sexuales, familiares y espirituales de finales de la Inglaterra victoriana.
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Samuel Butler (1835-1902) made one reputation during his lifetime with his Utopian satire Erewhon, and a second reputation after his death with The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously. This novel, the story of Ernest Pontifex, is a thinly disguised autobiography in which Butler brutally but hilariously savages the financial, sexual, familial and spiritual hypocrisies of late Victorian England.
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