The Works of George Meredith - Standard Edition (18-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Bound in forest green cloth with gilt lettering to the spines, this set presents a handsome and cohesive appearance across all sixteen volumes. Bindings remain tight and structurally sound throughout, with pages showing the expected age toning of a early twentieth century printing. A clean, unmarked set in solid collectible condition.
"A landmark of Victorian publishing, this 18-volume Standard Edition gathers Meredith's complete novels, poetry, and critical prose into a uniform set that spans the full range of his literary achievement, from the Arabian Nights fantasy of ""The Shaving of Shagpat"" and the searing political idealism of ""Beauchamp's Career"" to the psychological comedy of manners perfected in ""The Egoist"" and the feminist conviction driving ""Diana of the Crossways."" Titles include - Rhoda Fleming: 1914 - Chronicles the ruin of a Kent farmer's daughter seduced and abandoned by a gentleman, placing the full weight of Victorian sexual morality on the women who bear its consequences. Diana of the Crossways: 1915 - Follows the brilliant, unconventional Diana Merion through a disastrous marriage and political scandal, arguing that a woman of exceptional intelligence has no place Victorian society is willing to give her. The Shaving of Shagpat: 1914 - An Arabian Nights fantasy following the young barber Shibli Bagarag on a quest to shave the enchanter Shagpat, whose magical hair holds an entire city in thrall. Essay on Comedy: 1919 -Argues that true comedy is the highest literary form, requiring a civilised and equal society to produce it, and that the treatment of women is the surest measure of any society's comic intelligence. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: 1914 - Chronicles a widowed baronet's attempt to raise his son according to a rigid philosophical System, and the catastrophe that follows when love and nature override design. Short Stories: 1920 -Gathers Meredith's shorter fiction across his career, ranging from psychological study to comic sketch, with the same preoccupations driving his novels: egotism, the warfare between the sexes, and the difficulty of honest self-knowledge. Beauchamp's Career: 1914 - Follows Nevil Beauchamp, a naval officer turned Radical parliamentary candidate, as he wages idealistic war against the Conservative England of his own class and family. Sandra Belloni: 1914 - Introduces Emilia Belloni, a raw and gifted young singer whose natural genius collides with the genteel affectations of the Pole family, who take her up as a social ornament without grasping what she truly is. Poetical Works: 1919 - Poetical Works Confirms that Meredith's poetic ambition matched his achievement in prose, anchored by Modern Love, a fifty-sonnet sequence charting the collapse of a marriage with ferocious psychological acuity. Vittoria: 1914 - Set against the 1848 Italian Risorgimento, follows Emilia Belloni, now the operatic soprano Sandra Vittoria, as she places her voice and courage at the service of Italian independence. Celt and Saxon: 1910 - Left unfinished at Meredith's death, addresses the fraught relationship between Irish and English national character through two Irish brothers transplanted into London political life. The Egoist: 1915 - Applies Meredith's theory of comedy with devastating precision to Sir Willoughby Patterne, a country baronet of wealth and total self-absorption, as three women in succession perceive the hollow man behind the polished surface and refuse him. Lord Ormont and His Aminta: 1916 - Follows the proud old soldier Lord Ormont, who refuses to publicly acknowledge his young wife Aminta, keeping her in social purgatory to protect his own vanity. The Amazing Marriage: 1919 - Chronicles the impulsive union between the reckless Gower Woodseer and the spirited Carinthia Jane, and a husband who prizes freedom over the wife he has won. One of Our Conquerors: 1919 - Chronicles Victor Radnor, a self-made financier whose glittering life rests on moral compromise, tracing his slow psychological deterioration as the respectable structures he depends upon begin to press inward. The Tragic Comedians: 1916 - Based on the real affair between the German socialist politician Ferdinand Lassalle and the aristocratic Helene von Racowitza, presenting a doomed romance between a man of volcanic genius and a woman whose conventional upbringing cannot contain the passion she has awakened." Evan Harrington: 1914 - A witty novel of social comedy and class anxiety, "Evan Harrington" chronicles the efforts of a tailor's son to conceal his humble origins and pass as a gentleman in polite society, exposing with sharp comic precision the vanities and hypocrisies that governed Victorian ideas of respectability and breeding. The Adventures of Harry Richmond: 1914: A bildungsroman of ambition and disillusionment, "The Adventures of Harry Richmond" chronicles the coming-of-age of its narrator as he navigates the competing claims of his flamboyant, larger-than-life father and the respectable world that resists him, arguing that self-knowledge can only be won through the painful surrender of romantic illusion.
Author: George Meredith
Format: Hardback
Published: 1910, Constable, London
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Bound in forest green cloth with gilt lettering to the spines, this set presents a handsome and cohesive appearance across all sixteen volumes. Bindings remain tight and structurally sound throughout, with pages showing the expected age toning of a early twentieth century printing. A clean, unmarked set in solid collectible condition.
"A landmark of Victorian publishing, this 18-volume Standard Edition gathers Meredith's complete novels, poetry, and critical prose into a uniform set that spans the full range of his literary achievement, from the Arabian Nights fantasy of ""The Shaving of Shagpat"" and the searing political idealism of ""Beauchamp's Career"" to the psychological comedy of manners perfected in ""The Egoist"" and the feminist conviction driving ""Diana of the Crossways."" Titles include - Rhoda Fleming: 1914 - Chronicles the ruin of a Kent farmer's daughter seduced and abandoned by a gentleman, placing the full weight of Victorian sexual morality on the women who bear its consequences. Diana of the Crossways: 1915 - Follows the brilliant, unconventional Diana Merion through a disastrous marriage and political scandal, arguing that a woman of exceptional intelligence has no place Victorian society is willing to give her. The Shaving of Shagpat: 1914 - An Arabian Nights fantasy following the young barber Shibli Bagarag on a quest to shave the enchanter Shagpat, whose magical hair holds an entire city in thrall. Essay on Comedy: 1919 -Argues that true comedy is the highest literary form, requiring a civilised and equal society to produce it, and that the treatment of women is the surest measure of any society's comic intelligence. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: 1914 - Chronicles a widowed baronet's attempt to raise his son according to a rigid philosophical System, and the catastrophe that follows when love and nature override design. Short Stories: 1920 -Gathers Meredith's shorter fiction across his career, ranging from psychological study to comic sketch, with the same preoccupations driving his novels: egotism, the warfare between the sexes, and the difficulty of honest self-knowledge. Beauchamp's Career: 1914 - Follows Nevil Beauchamp, a naval officer turned Radical parliamentary candidate, as he wages idealistic war against the Conservative England of his own class and family. Sandra Belloni: 1914 - Introduces Emilia Belloni, a raw and gifted young singer whose natural genius collides with the genteel affectations of the Pole family, who take her up as a social ornament without grasping what she truly is. Poetical Works: 1919 - Poetical Works Confirms that Meredith's poetic ambition matched his achievement in prose, anchored by Modern Love, a fifty-sonnet sequence charting the collapse of a marriage with ferocious psychological acuity. Vittoria: 1914 - Set against the 1848 Italian Risorgimento, follows Emilia Belloni, now the operatic soprano Sandra Vittoria, as she places her voice and courage at the service of Italian independence. Celt and Saxon: 1910 - Left unfinished at Meredith's death, addresses the fraught relationship between Irish and English national character through two Irish brothers transplanted into London political life. The Egoist: 1915 - Applies Meredith's theory of comedy with devastating precision to Sir Willoughby Patterne, a country baronet of wealth and total self-absorption, as three women in succession perceive the hollow man behind the polished surface and refuse him. Lord Ormont and His Aminta: 1916 - Follows the proud old soldier Lord Ormont, who refuses to publicly acknowledge his young wife Aminta, keeping her in social purgatory to protect his own vanity. The Amazing Marriage: 1919 - Chronicles the impulsive union between the reckless Gower Woodseer and the spirited Carinthia Jane, and a husband who prizes freedom over the wife he has won. One of Our Conquerors: 1919 - Chronicles Victor Radnor, a self-made financier whose glittering life rests on moral compromise, tracing his slow psychological deterioration as the respectable structures he depends upon begin to press inward. The Tragic Comedians: 1916 - Based on the real affair between the German socialist politician Ferdinand Lassalle and the aristocratic Helene von Racowitza, presenting a doomed romance between a man of volcanic genius and a woman whose conventional upbringing cannot contain the passion she has awakened." Evan Harrington: 1914 - A witty novel of social comedy and class anxiety, "Evan Harrington" chronicles the efforts of a tailor's son to conceal his humble origins and pass as a gentleman in polite society, exposing with sharp comic precision the vanities and hypocrisies that governed Victorian ideas of respectability and breeding. The Adventures of Harry Richmond: 1914: A bildungsroman of ambition and disillusionment, "The Adventures of Harry Richmond" chronicles the coming-of-age of its narrator as he navigates the competing claims of his flamboyant, larger-than-life father and the respectable world that resists him, arguing that self-knowledge can only be won through the painful surrender of romantic illusion.