The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0192818171 ISBN 13 : 9780192818171

Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1992

Synopsis

Book by Meredith George

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawingroom of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. Credulity is not wooed through the impressionable senses; nor have we recourse to the small circular glow of the watchmakers eye to raise in bright relief minutest grains of evidence for the routing of incredulity. The Comic Spirit conceives a definite situation for a number of characters, and rejects all accessories in the exclusive pursuit of them and their speech. For, being a spirit, he hunts the spirit in men; vision and ardour constitute his merit: he has not a thought of persuading you to believe in him. Follow and you will see. But there is a question of the value of a run at his heels. Now the world is possessed of a certain big book, the biggest book on earth; that might indeed be called the Book of Earth; whose title is the Book of Egoism, and it is a book full of the worlds wisdom. So full of it, and of such dimensions is this book, in which the generations have written ever since they took to writing, that to be profitable to us the Book needs a powerful compression.
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There was an ominously anxious watch of eyes visible and invisible over the infancy of Willoughby fifth in descent from Simon Patterne of Patterne Hall premier of this family a lawyer a man of solid acquirements and stout ambition who well understood the foundation-work of a House and was endowed with the power of saying No to those first agents of destruction besieging relatives. (Excerpt)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0192818171
• ISBN 13: 9780192818171
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 599