About this title: Sir Willoughby Patterne is an exemplary character--or would be, if he had a touch of humility and perhaps a sense of humor along with his good looks and money.When his fiancée, Clara, and her high-living clergyman father come to Patterne Hall for a visit, Sir Willoughby's shallow frivolities are exposed, and Clara soon finds herself the subject of the attentions of two other men.
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet-New American Library
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. First printing, November, 1963. Moderate cover, edge wear, discoloration. Pages very good, first few w/lt. discoloration top edge. 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 ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. -1st Printing--510 pgs. Interior-Light signs of use w/ underlining. The paperback cover has only light signs of use. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Plume
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780452008205ISBN:0452008204
Description: Very Good. Isbn matches very clean softcover. clean text. no marks FAST SHIPPING W/ CONFIRMATION. NO PRIORITY OR INTERNATIONAL ORDERS OVER 4LBs. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780452008205ISBN:0452008204
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge and corner wear. No marks. Tight, square book. Black line across bottom of book. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Signet Classics, N. Y.
Date Published: 1963
Description: Cover Art. Reading Copy. No Jacket. Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. ----------Reading copy rated from good to very fine.......We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by. read more
"About as good as a book can be without being recommendable to anybody. Interesting if you love Victorian romance or have a deep interest in the history of psychology in the late 19th century.
verrry tough read, took me weeks to get through. Meredith's satirical style actually makes him harder to read than his straight-forward contemporaries, imo."
"George Meredith's sentences are absolutely labyrinthine and took some getting used to (although, even at the end of the book I was rereading some passages to discern meaning). This made for a VERY slow read. What's more, not a whole lot happens in the 400+ pages-Clara Middleton tries to disengage herself from Sir Willoughby. The story itself is a dry satire revolving around the (mock) epic battles that take place in aristocratic drawing rooms and dining rooms. Despite the seeming drawbacks, the book manages to be very enjoyable. I found myself really rooting for Clara Middleton and sympathizing with Victorian women due to their limited social choices. Sir Willoughby, on the other hand, is a caricature of pathetic male egoism and laughable sentimentalities, really an unforgettably abject character."
"A re-read of a book I read in college. I still enjoy it. For a comedy, it's not especially funny--but I love the way it lays bare the thoughts and motivations of all the characters. My only disappointment is that considering the title, I'd really like more of a focus on waffles."
"This is a fantastic story about Willoughby, a man who is so self-centered he never considers the possibility that other people are separate human beings. Dead-on portrayal of awful social situations (think Jane Austen). I laughed over and over at the awkwardness of Willoughby's bride-to-be, and the painfully clueless behavior of the Egoist himself.
One caveat, though : you gotta love Victorian novels to make it through this one. The Egoist contains some of the densest English I have ever read. (I had to reread many sentences three times, and some I never really understood.)
This is my third time through The Egoist, and I am reading it aloud with my Sweetie."
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