One of Our Conquerors
By George Meredith
FIRST EDITION
Publisher: The Christian Literature Company, New York
Copyright: 1897
George Meredith was an English novelist and poet during the Victorian era. 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." It was considered a breakthrough novel, but its sexual frankness caused a scandal and prevented it from being widely read.
Condition: This book is in good condition. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt titles on spine. Cloth on head of spine is chipped. Boards have some wear along edges and corners. Ink inscription on flyleaf dated Christmas 1891. Navy blue endpapers. Hinges tight. Binding square. The text block is crisp and clean.
Dimensions: 5" X 7.5"
414 pages
By George Meredith
FIRST EDITION
Publisher: The Christian Literature Company, New York
Copyright: 1897
George Meredith was an English novelist and poet during the Victorian era. 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." It was considered a breakthrough novel, but its sexual frankness caused a scandal and prevented it from being widely read.
Condition: This book is in good condition. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt titles on spine. Cloth on head of spine is chipped. Boards have some wear along edges and corners. Ink inscription on flyleaf dated Christmas 1891. Navy blue endpapers. Hinges tight. Binding square. The text block is crisp and clean.
Dimensions: 5" X 7.5"
414 pages