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The Egoist (Penguin Classics) by George Meredith; George Woodcock is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Virginia Woolf said of <i>The Egoist</i>: '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
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- Author
- George Meredith; George Woodcock
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141958767
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Classics
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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