The Egoist
by Meredith, George
Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed ... He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the behaviour of our kind.' In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate the pretensions of the most powerful class within the very citadel of security which its members have built. He develops to their logical extremity his ideas on egoism, on sentimentality and on the power of comedy. Meredith saw egoism as the great enemy of truth, feeling and progress, and comedy as the great dissolver of artifice. The Egoist is the extreme expression of his recurrent theme: the defeat of egoism by the power of comedy.
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The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative --Revised Edition
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New York: The Book League of America, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book League of America Book in Very Good Condition., without dust jacket. George Meredith b. 1828; d. 1909. This classic 19th Century English literature novel, "The Egoist", is a tragicomic novel first published in 1879 about… Read more about this item Item Price
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The egoist : a comedy in narrative
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THE EGOIST
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898 - 1899. revised edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 5 x 8 in. Green cloth boards with gilt tree on cover, gilt spine titles. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers very clean with minimal shelf wear. Spine bright, not sunned. Binding tight. Text bright and unmarked, gift message dated 1899 on half title… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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The Egoist (A Norton Critical Edition)
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New York: The Modern Library, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. 533p. A cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Spine and edges lightly sunned. Tiny dent at bottom of front cover and small stain on side edge. Owner's bookplate inside, but otherwise clean and tight. Vintage Modern Library edition with Rockwell Kent endpapers. Item Price
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The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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The Egoist (The World's Classics)
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'New edition.' Brown-dark olive ungrained cloth over boards, gilt letters; light gray end papers. Clean covers; lightly scuffed; bumped at lower fore corners; rubbed with splits at spine ends; 1/8 inch strip of cloth missing at spine tail; tightly bound (reglued at hinges); partial bookplate on front pastedown; owner signed name 'Christopher Lasch' (noted author and historian, Univ Iowa, Northwestern… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE EGOIST
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The Egoist
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NY: Charles Scibner's Sons, 1923. Revised. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. Full red morocco with gilt spine lettering. Condition is VERY GOOD ; slight edge wear, covers clean and supple. Gilt bright. Binding tight and text clean, unmarked. Fiction. Stax. Item Price
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The Egoist
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The New American Library, 1963. Paperback. Acceptable. 1963. first printing. 511 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light… Read more about this item Item Price
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Modern Library Grey Toledano binding #8 with contrasting green tile and gold gilt title. Kent end papers. Tights, square binding. Clipped dust jacket with 383 titles on verso. Green top stain. With an introduction by E. Aubert Mooney, Jr. 0. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Item Price
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The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
by MEREDITH, George
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New York: Modern Library, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Later printing. Introduction by E. Aubert Mooney, Jr. Near fine with sunning to the spine and boards in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing to the front panel and spine affecting the text on both, toning to the spine, and edgewear. Modern library 253. Item Price
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The Egoist
by George Meredith
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New York: The Modern Library, 1951. 2nd Thus. Good. With an introduction by E. Aubert Mooney, Jr. (Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland). Second or later edition from The Modern Library. No jacket. Grey cloth over boards with gilded lettering in and frames around green labels on front and spine. Top fore edge stained light green. Rubbing… Read more about this item Item Price
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