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Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp s. Richard's cousin, Adrian Harley, who has been appointed by Sir Austin to tutor the boy and who Meredith ironically terms the "Wise Youth," tries to circumvent the need for apology by bribing a witness to put the blame on someone else. But it is another of Richard's cousins, Austin Wentworth, who sits down with the boy and who makes him understand the importance of taking responsibility for one's actions.

The presence of two characters with the name "Austin" is sometimes confusing although Meredith is careful to always refer to Richard's father as "Sir Austin" but I think Meredith is inviting the reader to contrast the two men. Cousin Austin seems to be the real Humanist of the family.

For much of the novel, however, he is away in South America "looking out a place — it's a secret — for poor English working-men to emigrate to and found a colony in that part the world. II, Ch. V Had Austin been around more, many of the problems that develop might have been averted, and there wouldn't be a novel at all.

When Richard is nearing the age of 18, Sir Austin decides the time is right for him to find a suitable wife for Richard as unsoiled as he, and to arrange a betrothal for a marriage to be scheduled 7 years hence. Sir Austin journeys to London to begin his search.

But another goal is to reinforce his belief that he has made the correct decision in not allowing Richard to sow any wild oats during his youth. Much more amenable to Sir Austin is the household of Mrs. Grandison, who Meredith tells us is a descendant of Sir Charles Grandison, the title character of a novel by Samuel Richardson. Grandison is in complete accordance with Sir Austin concerning the importance of maintaining the purity of their children, and she proudly exhibits six of her eight daughters for his inspection, as well as the Gymnasium she has built.

Sir Austin is so blinded by Mrs. Grandison's educational theories that he fails to see that her daughters are really in no better shape than the children of the Wild Oats advocates. Nonetheless, Sir Austin settles upon the youngest — a year old named Carola. And yes, even though the marriage won't be for another 7 years, it's still a little creepy. But it's much too late. Richard has already accidently met a young woman closer to his own age while rowing on a river, and in a famous sequence of passages, Meredith humorously and poetically captures the phenomenon of love at first sight.

It begins like this:. Lucy Desborough is a fine young woman, even someone Richard's father would have selected for his son if he had not been so dogmatically fixed on making his own choice from families philosophically in accordance with his own ideas. But Lucy's uncle is a farmer the same farmer whose rick Richard burned four years ago , and Lucy herself is Catholic, so she is summed up by cousin Adrian with the quaint label "the Papist dairymaid" Vol.

III, ch. Richard is definitely his father's son. He has inherited or learned a combination of pride and obstinacy that pits father against son as two stubborn and immovable objects, propelling the novel down the road to tragedy. Taking advantage of a separation between Richard and Lucy imposed by Sir Austin, a predator named Lord Mountfalcon swoops down and begins a seduction of Lucy, while his concubine — a high-class prostitute sometimes called Bella but often referred to as Mrs.

Mount and I suspect there's a pun or two in there — is given the job of distracting and possibly seducing Richard. Bella is perhaps the most memorable character in Richard Feverel , world-weary and love-weary at the age of 21, able to string Richard along in a relationship that begins Platonically but which she can skillfully twist in whatever direction she wills.

The tragic ending of The Ordeal of Richard Feverel was problematic for contemporary readers, who expected a novel that began as a comedy to end as a comedy. Similar criticism continued for about a century. Readers today don't mind so much; following the emergence of Black Humor in the s and early s — Catch was published in and Dr. Strangelove was released in — we're much more inclined to accept and even admire genre-bending novels like Richard Feverel. In a first reading of Richard Feverel , the initial impression of a comedy is so strong that you keep holding on to the idea long after it has turned more solemn, and the tragic ending seems tacked on and unjustified.

Original blind-stamped greenish-brown cloth. First Edition of Meredith's first full-length novel preceded only by a volume of verse and two single-volume burlesques. FEVEREL is the tough tale of a father's "system" of raising his son, developed not so much out of concern for his son as out of revenge for the wife who had left him.

In , in fact, she had left him for another man, whose child she bore while still Meredith's legal wife she died of renal dropsy in Periodical reviewers made such comments as "This 'Ordeal' is about as painful a book as any reader ever felt himself compelled to read through Complaints about the novel's "low ethical tone" prompted Mudie's Library to refuse to circulate the copies it had bought, guaranteeing the book's demise though FEVEREL's reception was much better in other countries ; a second edition, revised, was not published until This is a very good set.

Most of the delicate original pale yellow endpapers are cracked, but the volumes remain tight; other than the endpapers, there is little wear other than minor wear at the extremities one corner bears a discreet repair. We find FEVEREL to be quite scarce today, especially in original cloth: for an author's failed first novel that subsequently became his best-known work, one cannot expect much better condition than this. Housed in an open-backed cloth slipcase.

Provenance in addition to below : Michael Sadleir bookplate in each volume ; also, loosely inserted is the shipping label from B. Blackwell to the current owner of this set.

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Housed in an open-backed cloth case. Alice Brandreth first met Meredith in , when she was thirteen -- visiting his home at Box Hill with her three-years-older cousin Jim Gordon, who was part of the Box Hill Gordon family which later would introduce Robert Louis Stevenson to Meredith. One can't call her a girl, and it won't do to say Goddess, and queen and charmer are out of the question, though she's both, and angel into the bargain. A History of Father and Son. This appears to be a variant with a combination not noted by Collie. The copy in hand brown cloth, with blind-stamped variant decorations on the front and back covers and with the publisher's name at the foot of the spine.

This copy is also without the ads. There is a little wear to the spines ends; the left sides of the crown of volumes one and two have very short tears. Occasional spotting and staining scattered throughout, but overall a very good pleasing set in the original cloth. The small, leather book plate of the Rupert Brooks' bibliographer, Richard Montgomery Gilchrist Potter, is on the front pastedown of each volume.

Housed in a drop-leaf clam shell box. Scarce in original cloth.

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