George Meredith Books


Beauchamp's Career

George Meredith

Beauchamp's Career is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself thought it his best novel, a..

The Adventures of Harry Richmond

George Meredith

The Adventures of Harry Richmond is a romance by British author George Meredith, sometimes picaresque, sometimes melodramatic. It is believed to be strongly autobiographical in some sections...

The Tragic Comedians

George Meredith

The word ‘fantastical’ is accentuated in our tongue to so scornful an utterance that the constant good service it does would make it seem an appointed instrument for reviewers of books of imaginative ..

Vittoria

George Meredith

From Monte Motterone you survey the Lombard plain. It is a towering dome of green among a hundred pinnacles of grey and rust-red crags. At dawn the summit of the mountain has an eagle eye for the far ..

Evan Harrington

George Meredith

Evan Harrington is an 1861 novel by George Meredith, a glowing comedy of Victorian presumptions. The second of Meredith's 'mainstream' novels, the work is loosely autobiographical in inspiration; and ..

Sandra Belloni

George Meredith

Sandra Belloni is the sequel of the novel Vittoria, written by George Meredith.We are to make acquaintance with some serious damsels, as this English generation knows them, and at a season vergin..

The Shaving of Shagpat

George Meredith

The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of stories within the story, along with poetic asides. “The varie..