The Egoist The Egoist

The Egoist

Publisher Description

A consummate portrait of vanity and egoismVirginia 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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1879
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
761
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
531.5
KB

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