In this novel, Meredith illuminates the pretensions of the powerful within their citadels of security, developing his ideas on egoism, sentimentality and 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 (Penguin Classics)

George, Meredith

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

The Modern Library

Young Sir Willoughby embarks on his romantic adventures, but his selfishness hinders his true happiness

The Egoist (The World's Classics 508)

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Oxford University Press

Rhonda Fleming: A Story (Classic Reprint)

Forgotten Books

<p>Highly Recommended! Humongous Fantastic Book! Over 800 easy to read poetic pages! In short, a really good read. Meredith deserves his reputation-- both for his skill and for the effort needed to enjoy the work.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 and we thank him for it.Enjoy this great work today you'll be glad you did!</p>

The Poems of George Meredith

Poetry

Yale University Press

The Shaving of Shagpat

Blurb

Works, Set

Reprint Services Corporation

A critical edition of a work by one of the premier writers of the nineteenth century. Diana of the Crossways is one of George Meredith's most popular and critically acclaimed novels. When the book was first published in 1885, George Meredith was well known as an advocate for the rights of women. He encouraged their legal emancipation and women's suffrage. His writings reveal his sense of the injustice suffered by women because of constraints on their natural abillties. Diana of the Crossways illustrates a Victorian woman in the process of change as the attempts independence. The problems she faces offer a distinct departure from the treatment of conventional heroines of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Meredith understood and wrote so well about the conflicts women faced that Diana of the Crossways depicts the struggles that led to a new ferninism. Nikki Lee Manos's introduction draws upon a wide range of historical and critical texts, from John Stuart Mill's feminist tract of 1869 to Mary Poovey's contemporary theorles about gender in Victorian fiction. Diana of the Crossways is a central text for the study of nineteenth-century representation of women and the Victorian women's rights movement. Students and scholars of nineteenth-century British literature, women's studies, and cultural studies will find this novel with its invaluable introduction a must read in understanding women during the Victorian era.

Diana of the Crossways

History & Criticism

Wayne State Univ Pr

Evan Harrington (Bookmasters)

The Boydell Press

Selected Poems (Fyfield Books)

Fyfield Books

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