Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Meredith’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* ALL 20 novels, with individual contents tables
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original Victorian texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes rare essay collections appearing here for the first time in digital publishing
* Special criticism section, with 12 essays evaluating Meredith’s contribution to literature
* Features the celebrated biography on Meredith by Constantin Photiadès: GEORGE MEREDITH: HIS LIFE, GENIUS AND TEACHING, available in no other collection – discover Meredith’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Novels
The Shaving of Shagpat (1856)
Farina (1857)
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)
Evan Harrington (1861)
Emilia in England (1864)
Rhoda Fleming (1865)
Vittoria (1867)
The Adventures of Harry Richmond (1871)
Beauchamp’s Career (1875)
The House on the Beach (1877)
The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper (1877)
The Tale of Chloe (1879)
The Egoist (1879)
Diana of the Crossways (1885)
The Tragic Comedians (1890)
One of Our Conquerors (1891)
Lord Ormont and His Aminta (1894)
The Amazing Marriage (1895)
Celt and Saxon (1910)
The Gentleman of Fifty and the Damsel of Nineteen (1910)
The Play
The Sentimentalists (1910)
The Poetry
The Poetry of George Meredith
The Essays
Essay on Comedy (1877)
Miscellaneous Essays
Up to Midnight (1913)
The Criticism
The Quality of George Meredith by Oscar Wilde
Meredith by Arnold Bennett
The Novels of George Meredith by Virginia Woolf
On Rereading Meredith by Virginia Woolf
George Meredith by Robert Lynd
Two Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson
George Meredith as a Poet by Arthur Symons
About Meredith by G. K. Chesterton
George Meredith by James Joyce
Hardy and Meredith by Richard Burton
George Meredith by W. E. Henley
Living Masters: Meredith and Hall Caine by David Christie Murray
The Biography
George Meredith: His Life, Genius and Teaching by Constantin Photiadès
