{"product_id":"the-egoist","title":"The Egoist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSir Willoughby Patterne is the most charming man in the county, and he worships one person above all: himself.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNot yet released.\u003c\/strong\u003e This edition is finished and in production. Write to the press and we will let you know the day it goes on sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHandsome, rich, adored, and monstrously self-satisfied, Sir Willoughby has chosen the beautiful young Clara Middleton to complete his own magnificence. But the nearer the wedding draws, the more clearly Clara sees the vanity beneath the manners, and the more desperately she looks for a way out of a marriage that would swallow her whole. Around the three of them, Willoughby, Clara, and the patient, long-loving Laetitia Dale, Meredith assembles one of the great comic casts in English fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1879, \u003cem\u003eThe Egoist\u003c\/em\u003e is Meredith's masterpiece: a glittering “comedy in narrative” and the most searching portrait of male egoism in the language, watched over throughout by the Comic Spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe complete novel, the Prelude and all fifty chapters, freshly set with drop capitals and small-cap chapter titles, behind an original mixed media cover illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorge Meredith (1828–1909)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubtitle: A Comedy in Narrative\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe complete novel, the Prelude and all fifty chapters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNorthlume Classic Library\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 572 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"JVB Atelier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44716912476202,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0228\/4330\/files\/the-egoist.jpg?v=1787373300","url":"https:\/\/northlume.org\/products\/the-egoist","provider":"Northlume ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}