Four generations of a Victorian family expose the quiet tyrannies of respectable religion and paternal love.
Books mentioned in The Way of All Flesh (18)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “The result of his experience was that women had never done him any good and he was not accustomed to associate them with any pleasure; if there was a part of Hamlet in connection with them it had been so completely cut out in the edition of the play in which he was required to act that he had come to disbelieve in its existence. As for…”
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan: “I had also dramatised "The Pilgrim's Progress" for a Christmas Pantomime, and made an important scene of Vanity Fair, with Mr Greatheart, Apollyon, Christiana, Mercy, and Hopeful as the principal characters.”
A History of England by Markham: “not long since he had been reading Mrs Markham's history of England and had come upon the words "John of Gaunt had several natural children" he”
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers: “Pryer not being at home, he lounged to the British Museum Reading Room, then recently opened, sent for the "Vestiges of Creation," which he had never yet seen, and spent the rest of the afternoon in reading it. Ernest did not see Pryer on the day of his conversation with Mr Shaw, but he did so next morning and found him in a good temper,…”
Essays and Reviews by Frederick Temple et al.: “1844, when "Vestiges of Creation" appeared, and 1859, when "Essays and Reviews" marked the commencement of that storm which raged until many years afterwards, there was not a single book published in England that”
History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle: “caused serious commotion within the bosom of the Church. Perhaps Buckle's "History of Civilisation" and Mill's "Liberty" were the most alarming, but they neither of them reached the substratum of the reading”
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill: “caused serious commotion within the bosom of the Church. Perhaps Buckle's "History of Civilisation" and Mill's "Liberty" were the most alarming, but they neither of them reached the substratum of the reading”
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: “Ernest had hardly been ordained before three works in quick succession arrested the attention even of those who paid least heed to theological controversy. I mean "Essays and Reviews," Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species," and Bishop Colenso's "Criticisms on the Pentateuch."”
The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined by John William Colenso: “Ernest had hardly been ordained before three works in quick succession arrested the attention even of those who paid least heed to theological controversy. I mean "Essays and Reviews," Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species," and Bishop Colenso's "Criticisms on the Pentateuch."”
An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness by Henry More: “They got up Beveridge on the Thirty-nine Articles, and Pearson on the Creed; in their hours of recreation they read More's "Mystery of Godliness," which Ernest thought was charming, and Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying," which also impressed him deeply, through what he thought was the splendour of its language.”
Holy Living and Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor: “They got up Beveridge on the Thirty-nine Articles, and Pearson on the Creed; in their hours of recreation they read More's "Mystery of Godliness," which Ernest thought was charming, and Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying," which also impressed him deeply, through what he thought was the splendour of its language. They handed”
Alton Locke by Charles Kingsley: “Kingsley's "Alton Locke," which, High Churchman though he for the nonce was, he had devoured as he had devoured Stanley's Life of Arnold,”
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley: “Kingsley's "Alton Locke," which, High Churchman though he for the nonce was, he had devoured as he had devoured Stanley's Life of Arnold,”
Evidences of Christianity by William Paley: “CHAPTER LIX Before going down into the kitchen to convert the tinker Ernest ran hurriedly over his analysis of Paley's evidences, and put into his pocket a copy of Archbishop Whateley's "Historic Doubts." Then he descended the dark rotten old stairs and knocked at the tinker's door.”
Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte by Richard Whately: “CHAPTER LIX Before going down into the kitchen to convert the tinker Ernest ran hurriedly over his analysis of Paley's evidences, and put into his pocket a copy of Archbishop Whateley's "Historic Doubts." Then he descended the dark rotten old stairs and knocked at the tinker's door.”
The Odyssey by Homer: “I am not very familiar with the writer of the Odyssey (who, by the way, I suspect strongly of having been a clergyman), but he assuredly hit the right nail on the head when he epitomised his typical wise man as knowing "the ways and farings of many men.”
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “He said: "Oh, don't talk about rewards. Look at Milton, who only got 5 pounds for'Paradise Lost.'"”
Les Provinciales by Blaise Pascal: “One of the most gushing weeklies had a fit over it, and declared it to be the finest thing that had been done since the "Provincial Letters" of Pascal. Once a month or so that weekly always found some picture which was the finest that had been done since the old masters, or some satire that was the finest that had appeared since Swift or…”
Books that mention The Way of All Flesh (2)
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster: “A Shropshire Lad. Never heard of it. The Way of All Flesh. Never heard of it. Gibbon.”
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: “He was reading a book called "The Way of All Flesh."”