George Meredith Books

The first 1995 cover edition with the title on blue background is here. Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: '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 the power of comedy. Meredith saw egoism as the great enemy of truth, feeling and progress, and comedy as the great dissolver of artifice. The Egoist is the extreme expression of his recurrent theme: the defeat of egoism by the power of comedy.

Odes - In Contribution to the Song of French History is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Diana Of The Crossways Book 1 is a feminist novel written by George Meredith. The plot introduces you to the life of Diana in Victorian work of fiction, based on the life of notorious socialite Caroline Norton, who married a bad man, wrote pro-feminist literature, and got involved with several political figures. In a Victorian culture that sexualizes all relationships between men and women. Diana is a singular heroine who is impulsive, passionate, and in every way in jeopardy. On the other hand, Diana's friendship with Lady Emma, her best friend, is one that can be compared to romantic love in that it is both physically tactile and emotionally strong. But, how will Diana manage her relationship? Will she ever get overcome by society's taunts? Read to know how Diana will help herself from his bad husband and how she will be the heroine of this story!