George Meredith

Diana of the Crossways

Novel of an independent woman navigating politics, media, and love

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George Meredith
George Meredith

Meredith was a major Victorian novelist and poet whose dense, allusive prose style influenced Henry James and the modernists. The Egoist is a sustained comedy of male vanity, and his essay On the Idea of Comedy is a classic of literary criticism.

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