The complete online text of Diana of the Crossways — Complete by George Meredith.

The English novelist and poet George Meredith (1828-1909) concentrated on detailed character development and witty intellectual discussion. His narrative style is often highly metaphorical, allusive, and aphoristic. George Meredith was born on Feb. 12, 1...

Between 1856 and 1895, George Meredith published fifteen novels as well as long short stories or novellas, taking as his special subject the instability of human relationships within a sharply conceived but usually arbitrary social context. As a novelist...

Between 1856 and 1895, George Meredith published fifteen novels and a number of long short stories or novellas, taking as his special subject the instability of human relationships within a sharply conceived but usually arbitrary social context. As a nov...

This essay offers a new reading of George Meredith's 1885 novel Diana of the Crossways from the perspective of cognitive theory as it has been developed by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Mark Turner. A cognitive perspective reveals that the novel is as...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Crossways Introduction: Yeats often remarked that he would like to forget and even omit from the Collected Poems this first book of lyrics, published in 1889, when he was only twenty-four. But then, he wrote (in 1925) "I have . ....