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The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative

The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative

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The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative

by George Meredith

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Constable & Co. Ltd., 1908. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1908. No Edition Stated. 523 pages. No dust jacket. Red full leather binding with gilt lettering. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Rear hinge partly cracked. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with some loss to spine ends. Notable sunning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.

Synopsis

Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed ... He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the behaviour of our kind.' In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate the pretensions of the most powerful class within the very citadel of security which its members have built. He develops to their logical extremity his ideas on egoism, on sentimentality and on the power of comedy. Meredith saw egoism as the great enemy of truth, feeling and progress, and comedy as the great dissolver of artifice. The Egoist is the extreme expression of his recurrent theme: the defeat of egoism by the power of comedy.

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Title
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
Author
George Meredith
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available
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Publisher
Constable & Co. Ltd.
Date Published
1908

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