The complete online text of The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1 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...

Once upon a time, oh best beloved, long, long ago, long before there was such a thing as motion pictures, or radio or television, before the initials FX or DVD or VCR, even - imagine such a thing, dear hearts - before there...

This is the first volume of a reincarnation of the old Arabian Studies which last appeared in 1990 with the eighth of somewhat irregularly published volumes since 1972. The addition of the adjective 'New' to the title signals that this is formally a...