CHAPTER XXVIII
Beauty, of course, is for the hero. Nevertheless,
it is not always he on whom beauty works its most
conquering influence. It is the dull commonplace
man into whose slow br...
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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, ...
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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 co...
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It is difficult to define George Meredith's place among the major Victorian poets, in part because of his many claims to distinction. He is at once impresario and sage, prophet and man of the world. H...
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Although George Meredith's literary reputation has diminished somewhat since his death in 1909, he is still regarded as a major writer of the Victorian period. But besides producing fifteen novels, nu...
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George Meredith is known chiefly as a Victorian novelist and poet; his shorter fiction appeared toward the beginning of his career, in the late 1850s and early 1860s, and reached its fullest developme...
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Biography EssayBetween 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 ...
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Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 4
George Meredith
George Meredith