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The Egoist
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The Egoist Paperback - 1979

by Meredith, George, Woodcock, George

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  • Title The Egoist
  • Author Meredith, George, Woodcock, George
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 608
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
  • Date January 25, 1979
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP97469855
  • ISBN 9780140430349 / 0140430342
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 1.23 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 3.12 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

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.

From the publisher

George Meredith was born in 1828, the son of a Portsmouth tailor. He was educated in local schools and later at the Moravian School at Neuwied near Coblenz. In 1844 he was articled to a solicitor but turned instead to writing, publishing Poems in 1851 and his first work of fiction, The Shaving of Shagpat, in 1856. In 1849 he had married Mary Ellen Nicolls, Thomas Love Peacock’s widowed daughter. After a few years the marriage foundered and, having left Meredith, Mary Ellen died in 1861. In 1864 he married Marie Vulliamy. From his first introduction to the literary world, Meredith became a hard-working man of letters, acting for many years as reader for Chapman Hall, and devoting much time to journalism. This, however, did not interrupt the flow of his novels. The best known were The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859), Evan Harrington or He Would be a Gentleman (1861), Emilia in England (1864), later re-published as Sandra Belloni (1886), Rhoda Fleming (1865), The Adventures of Harry Richmond (1871), Beauchamp’s Career (1876), The Egoist (1879), The Tragic Comedians (1880), and Diana of the Crossways (1885). His most important works of non-fiction were his volume of poems, Modern Love (1862) and his Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit (1897). After a long period of relative neglect, Meredith became famous and respected in his old age, and in 1905 he received the Order of Merit. He died in 1909.

About the author

George Meredith 1828-1909, English novelist and poet. One of the great English novelists, Meredith wrote complex, often comic yet highly cerebral works that contain striking psychological character studies.

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