The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

Name: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Author: George Meredith

by George Meredith

Novel of a father's experimental System of raising his son with tragic consequences

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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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