The Way of All Flesh - Classics Club Author:Samuel Butler Look back through your own life. Did you have a happy childhood? Or did early life have its share of unpleasantness... memories of scoldings on trivial pretexts... meaningless and useless knowledge being crammed into your head... grown-ups whose actions you didn't understand, and who didn't understand you at all? — Samuel Butler had such a childh... more »ood. In The Way of All Flesh he writes the story of his own life. The novel is sometimes tender, sometimes tragic, sometimes witty and humorous... and always as powerful and keenly alive as any of today's best-sellers.« less