The House On The Beach

George Meredith was a famous English novelist and poet whose career developed in conjunction with an era of great chance in English literature during the second half of the nineteenth century. 

The House on the Beach by George Meredith is a novella which first appeared in print in 1877. The storyline of the novella focuses on an unhappy young woman which is forced by conscience to become inappropriately engaged to a far older man, who threatens to reveal the secret. The secret is not ordinary but nothing more than a usual event in the life of any person. The father of this woman turned out to be a deserter. She wanted to keep this secret but living circumstances didn't allow her to solve this issue.