Description: 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. 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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EAN: 9780140430349
UPC: 9780140430349
ISBN: 9780140430349
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Book Title: Egoist
Number of Pages: 608 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: Classics, Literary
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 1979
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 16.6 Oz
Author: George Woodcock, George Meredith
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
