Sir Willoughby Patterne is handsome, rich, generous and admired, and the novel is the slow, exact demonstration of what it is like to be engaged to him. Meredith's style won him more admirers among writers than readers — he worked for years as a publisher's reader — and here the difficulty pays: nobody has ever anatomised male vanity so completely, and Clara Middleton's attempts to get free are as tense as any thriller.
Engels
The Shaving of Shagpat : An Arabian Entertainment
Evan Harrington : A Tailor's Son and the Question of Gentility
The Tragic Comedians : A Study in a Well-Known Story
The Complete Short Works of George Meredith : Farina and Other Tales
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel : A History of a Father and Son
The Adventures of Harry Richmond
Farina
Vittoria
One of Our Conquerors
The Amazing Marriage
El Egoísta : Una comedia narrativa
