The Egoist

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Marianne North, William Quiller Orchardson and William Merritt Chase. Sir Willoughby Patterne is handsome, rich, generous and admired, and the novel is the slow, exact demonstration of what it is like to be engaged to him. Meredith's style won him more admirers among writers than readers — he worked for years as a publisher's reader — and here t...