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The Egoist George Meredith

The Egoist By George Meredith

The Egoist by George Meredith


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Summary

Illuminates the pretensions of the most powerful class within the very citadel of security which its members have built. This title covers egoism, sentimentality and the power of comedy. It features the defeat of egoism by the power of comedy.

The Egoist Summary

The Egoist by George Meredith

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.

About George Meredith

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.

Additional information

GOR001334258
9780140430349
0140430342
The Egoist by George Meredith
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
1968-07-01
608
N/A
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