Samuel Butler 
Way of All Flesh [PDF ebook] 

Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh follows four generations of the Pontifex family. The novel is semi-autobiographical and attacks the hypocrisy that was characteristic in the Victorian era. It was written between 1873 and 1884, but Butler didn’t risk publishing it in his life – it was instead finally released a year after Butler’s death, in 1903.