The Egoist
$37.35
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
26 October 1978
Summary
A consummate portrait of vanity and egoism. 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 e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140430349 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140430342 |
| Author: | George Meredith, George Woodcock |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 26 October 1978 |
| Weight: | 439g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Classics |
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George Meredith
George Meredith (1828-1909) was an 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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