1910 An Essay On Comedy & Comic Spirit by George Meredith Antique Book
An Essay On Comedy And The Uses Of The Comic Spirit
By George Meredith
Published by Constable & Company Ltd: London 1910
"George Meredith (1828 - 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a reputation as a novelist. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) briefly scandalised Victorian literary circles. Of his later novels, the most enduring is The Egoist (1879), though in his lifetime his greatest success was Diana of the Crossways (1885). His novels were innovative in their attention to characters' psychology, and also portrayed social change. His style, in both poetry and prose, was noted for its syntactic complexity; Oscar Wilde likened it to "chaos illumined by brilliant flashes of lightning". Meredith was an encourager of other novelists, as well as an influence on them; among those to benefit were Robert Louis Stevenson and George Gissing. Meredith was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.
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Light wear and some fading to covers and spine. Pages clean and well presented. A nice copy in good condition overall. Please study photos to further understand condition.
