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1 de jun. de 1999 · THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL is one of George Meredith's masterpieces. It is the story of a bright and strong-willed young man who must make his own way in the world despite the misguided advice of an overbearing father who has treated his only child as a kind of experiment. Of course, nothing goes according to plan.
- George Meredith
Sir Austin Feverel's wife has run off with a poet, leaving him with their son Richard. Sir Austin devises a ‘System’ for Richard's education, which consists in keeping the boy at home and in trusting to authoritarian parental vigilance. Richard's struggle for freedom and knowledge forms the underlying theme of the book.
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26 de mai. de 2017 · The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son (1859) is the earliest full-length novel by George Meredith; its subject is the inability of systems of education to control human passions.
- George Meredith
The gracious glory of heaven fell upon his soul. He touched her hand, not moving his eyes from her, nor speaking, and she, with a soft word of farewell, passed across the stile, and up the pathway through the dewy shades of the copse, and out of the arch of the light, away from his eyes. And away with her went the wild enchantment.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son, Volume 2. George Meredith. Chapman and Hall, 1859 - England . Preview this book ...
First published in 1859, Meredith's first and most controversial novel concerns Sir Austin Feverel's misconceived attempts to educate his son Richard according to a system of his own devising--a system based on theories of sexual restraint. Exploring generational and gender conflicts, the psychology of sexual jealousy and repression, and myths ...
