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Synopsis. Sir Austin Feverel's wife deserts him to run away with a poet, leaving her husband to bring up their boy Richard. Believing schools to be corrupt, Sir Austin, a scientific humanist, educates the boy at home with a plan of his own devising known as "the System".
- 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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George Meredith, Edward Mendelson (Editor) 3.52. 305 ratings32 reviews. Of all nineteenth-century English novels, " claims Edward Mendelson in his Introduction to this edition, "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel is the most self-consciously literary in its style and structure and the most sexually explicit in its plot and theme."
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1 de jun. de 1999 · The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (Penguin Classics) Paperback – June 1, 1999.
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- George Meredith
28 de dic. 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.
A novel by G. Meredith, published 1859. 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.