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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son is the earliest full-length novel by George Meredith; its subject is the inability of systems of education to control human passions. It is one of a select group of standard texts that have been included in all four of Everyman's Library (1935), the New American Library of ...
- George Meredith
- 1859
- 1859
- Philosophical novel
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, third novel by George Meredith, published in 1859. It is typical of his best work, full of allusion and metaphor, lyrical prose and witty dialogue, with a deep exploration of the psychology of motive and rationalization. The novel’s subject is the relationship between.
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Exploring generational and gender conflicts, the psychology of sexual jealousy and repression, and myths of Eden and Utopia, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel shocked Victorian readers but gained for itself a cult following.
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- Meredith, George, 1828-1909
- English
- Chandler, Frank Wadleigh, 1873-1947
28 de dez. de 2001 · The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. by George Meredith. 1905. Contents. BOOK 1. CHAPTER I. THE INMATES OF RAYNHAM ABBEY. CHAPTER II. SHOWING HOW THE FATES SELECTED THE FOURTEENTH BIRTHDAY TO TRY THE STRENGTH OF THE SYSTEM. CHAPTER III. THE MAGIAN CONFLICT. CHAPTER IV. ARSON. CHAPTER V. ADRIAN PLIES HIS HOOK. CHAPTER VI. JUVENILE STRATAGEMS. CHAPTER VII.
The Ordeal is the story of Meredith the artist as a man of ordeal. While writing it, Meredith himself was undergoing the experience of desertion by his first wife, Mary Ellen Nicholls, who had eloped with the painter Henry Wallis late in 1858, and left Meredith with their five year old son, Arthur.
