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Sir Willoughby Patterne is the most charming man in the county, and he worships one person above all: himself.
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About this edition
Handsome, 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.
First published in 1879, The Egoist 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.
The 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.
Details
- George Meredith (1828–1909)
- Subtitle: A Comedy in Narrative
- The complete novel, the Prelude and all fifty chapters
- Northlume Classic Library
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 572 pages