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The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative (Modern Library #253.2)
by MEREDITH, George
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. [c.1956]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of George Meredith's 1879 comedic novel, which wittily exposes the folly of egotism. With an introduction by E. Aubert Mooney, Jr. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / faded green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 376 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1956 (though 1951 date appears in book). ML #253.2. --- An about-Very Good copy: clean, tightly-bound and bright but with small triangular open tear to cloth at back cover, prior owner's signature to ffep & discreet penciled check-marks scattered through the text. Price-clipped jacket with tears, chafing and rubbing but remaining mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xx, 3-533, [8, ads] pages .
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88361
- Title
- The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative (Modern Library #253.2)
- Author
- MEREDITH, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1956]
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- Gilt
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