The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
de George Meredith
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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Sobre este artículo
'New edition.' Brown-dark olive ungrained cloth over boards, gilt letters; light gray end papers. Clean covers; lightly scuffed; bumped at lower fore corners; rubbed with splits at spine ends; 1/8 inch strip of cloth missing at spine tail; tightly bound (reglued at hinges); partial bookplate on front pastedown; owner signed name 'Christopher Lasch' (noted author and historian, Univ Iowa, Northwestern Univ & Univ Rochester) on front free end paper; clean interior. 12mo, 505 pp.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Madden Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 15122
- Título
- The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
- Autor
- George Meredith
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Boston: Roberts Brothers
- Fecha de publicación
- 1886
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction, Literature;
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Madden Books
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Sobre Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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- Gilt
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- 12mo
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