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Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition Meredith was born in Portsmouth, England, a son and grandson of naval outfitters. His mother died when he was five. At the age of 14 he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied, Germany, where he remained for two years. 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, his first "major novel". He married Marie Vulliamy in 1864 and settled in Surrey. He continued writing novels, and later in life he returned to writing poetry, often inspired by nature. Oscar Wilde, in his dialogue The Decay Of Lying, implies that Meredith, along with Balzac, is his favourite novelist, saying "Ah

12mo over 6.75 - 7.75'' tall Nice Tight Clean copy ! 152 pages. 7967

Condition: Very Good. :: Further Information: A subtle and moving narrative of a youth's education in English country life. A gradual breakdown of an egocentric universe that is happy, innocent and hopeless.Illustrated. ::

4th impression. ~ Cloth, dj, VG. viii+251pp, 16pp b/w plates, index, some slight pencil marking, a nice copy. ~ Life of the soldier covering exploits in Malta, Sudan, egypt, Palestine, Albania, Romania, The Balkans, Syria etc.