This poem is a work of 50 verses, or poems, all of 16 lines, spoken by the narrator who painfully discovers how unreal and idealistic his ideas about women are. This title is part of the Syrens series of miniature classics.

Modern Love (Syren)

Literature & Fiction

MEREDITH, GEORGE

Literary

Penguin Classics

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.

The Egoist

Of all nineteenth-century English novels," claims Edward Mendelson in his Introduction to this edition, "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel is the most self-consciously literary in its style and structure and the most sexually explicit in its plot and theme." First published in 1859, Meredith's first and most controversial novel concerns Sir Austin Feverel's misconceived attempts to educate his son Richard according to a system of his own devising--a system based on theories of sexual restraint. Exploring generational and gender conflicts, the psychology of sexual jealousy and repression, and myths of Eden and Utopia, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel shocked Victorian readers but gained for itself a cult following. "Now that it has been freed from its reputation," writes Mendelson, "readers can discover again the tragic and ironic force, and the psychological and formal complexity that make The Ordeal of Richard Feverel one of the most profound, subtle, and moving works of English fiction."   A wonderfully ironic and impassioned novel of war between the sexes and the generations by a writer who "deserves our gratitude and excites our interest as a great innovator" (Virginia Woolf)

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (Penguin Classics)

Genre Fiction

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

The Modern Library

This great story of love and tyranny, republished here for the first time in many years, helped alter the direction of the English novel. First published in 1859, the year when Darwin's Origin of Species was calling ito question the fundamental laws by which the Victorians governed their lives, this powerful book tells of the battle of a father for the heart and soul of his son.

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Oxford University Press

The Egoist (1879), George Meredith's best known novel, works witty variations on the traditional courtship plot. Exploiting the conventions of dramatic comedy, this novel of manners relies on sexual innuendo to satirize the patriarchal, aristocratic and imperialist assumptions prevalent in Victorian England. When the delightfully obnoxious egoist Sir Willoughby Patterne determines to secure a bride worthy of his name, a complicated game of pursuit and flight ensues involving a colorful cast of characters.

The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative (The ^AWorld's Classics)

History & Criticism

Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside occupies a distinctive and somewhat notorious place within George Meredith’s already unique body of work. Modern Love is now best known for the emotionally intense sonnet cycle which Meredith’s own contemporaries dismissed as scandalously confessional and indiscreet. While individual sonnets from the work have been anthologized, the complete cycle is rarely included, and the original edition has not been reprinted since its first appearance in 1862. This edition restores the original publication and supplements it with a range of accompanying materials that will reintroduce Meredith’s astonishing collection of poetry to a new generation of readers.

Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads

Poetry

Yale University Press

Short works by the 19th century English lyric poet.

Selected Poems.

Praeger

1970, original mass market paperback edition, Ballantine, NY. Introduction by Lin Carter. 278 pages. Originally published in 1855, here is an exotic, adult fantasy novel that "flopped badly and the publishers dumped the first edition on the remainder stalls." Now regarded as a classic of Oriental fantasy, here is an Arabian night tale that will satisfy those who read it.

The Shaving of Shagpat

Dramas & Plays

Ballantine

The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment is a fantasy novel by English writer George Meredith. It was first published in hardcover by Chapman and Hall in 1856, and there have been numerous editions since. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its reissuing by Ballantine Books as the seventeenth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1970. The Ballantine edition includes an introduction by Lin Carter. The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of stories within the story, along with poetic asides. Shibli Bagarag, a Persian barber, and Noorna, an enchantress, are given the quest of shaving the tyrant Shagpat, who by the power of his magical hair holds his city in thrall. Along the way Shibli acquires a magic sword and meets a series of exotic creatures, including a talking hawk and several genies. The second paragraph of the book provides a capsule summary of the story: "Now the story of Shibli Bagarag, and of the ball he followed, and of the subterranean kingdom he came to, and of the enchanted palace he entered, and of the sleeping king he shaved, and of the two princesses he released, and of the Afrite held in subjection by the arts of one and bottled by her, is it not known as 'twere written on the finger-nails of men and traced in their corner robes?"

The Shaving of Shagpat (unabridged)

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