But it is the struggle of Ernest, a future writer, that this 1903 work is most concerned with.
It was completed 17 years before the author's death but never published because he hadn't revised the second half. The last section focuses on Aunt Alethea's rescue of the protagonist whose adulterous affair with the drunk Ellen results in disaster. The novel is narrated by the family friend, Overton, who tells the story of Old John's descendants: men like George, and Theobald an Anglican clergymen who raises his children with little understanding of Christian charity. But it is the struggle of Ernest, a future writer, that this 1903 work is most concerned with. FTP, name this novel about the Pontifex family the last work by Samuel Butler.
It was completed 17 years before the author's death but never published because he hadn't revised the second half.
The Way of All Flesh