TY - BOOK AU - Meredith,George TI - The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative AV - PR PY - 1999/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - England -- Fiction KW - Psychological fiction KW - Love stories KW - Courtship -- Fiction KW - Egoism -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egoist_(novel); Release date is 1999-03-01; Produced by Jim Tinsley; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative" by George Meredith is a tragicomical novel published in 1879. The story centers on the self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his troubled pursuit of marriage. After being jilted by his first bride-to-be, he wavers between two women: the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton. The novel follows Clara's struggle to escape her engagement to Willoughby, who sees women merely as mirrors for himself, dramatizing the constraints faced by women in Victorian society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1684 ER -