The Sentimentalists; An Unfinished Comedy: in large print - Softcover

Meredith, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3368331809 ISBN 13: 9783368331801

Publisher: Outlook Verlag, 2023

Synopsis

George Meredith, OM (1828-1909) was an English novelist and poet. He read law and was articled as a solicitor, but abandoned that profession for journalism and poetry shortly after marrying Mary Ellen Nicolls, a widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, in 1849. He was twenty-one years old; she was thirty. He collected his early writings, first published in periodicals, into Poems, which was published to some acclaim in 1851. His wife left him and their five-year old son in 1858; she died three years later. Her departure was the inspiration for The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859), his first "major novel". As an advisor to publishers, Meredith is credited with helping Thomas Hardy start his literary career, and was an early associate of J. M. Barrie. Before his death, Meredith was honored from many quarters: he succeeded Lord Tennyson as president of the Society of Authors; in 1905 he was appointed to the Order of Merit by King Edward VII. His works include: The Shaving of Shagpat (1856), Farina (1857), Vittoria (1867) and The Egoist (1879).

Edition details

• Publisher: Outlook Verlag
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3368331809
• ISBN 13: 9783368331801
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52