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The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library Series) Fiction_Gift_Guide from the Allegheny Mountains ofSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time The Way of All Flesh is one of the time bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously