: George Meredith
: Diana of the Crossways
: Charles River Editors
: 9781537811833
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: CHF 1.10
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
: 611
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George Meredith was an English novelist and poet during the Victorian era. Meredith was a prolific writer and he stood out as one of the great authors of comedy of his time.  With classics such as The Egoist, Diana of the Crossways, and The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Meredith remains a popular author today.



Diana of the Crossways, published in 1885, is a novel that centers around an intelligent and energetic woman who is trapped in a terrible marriage.The book is based off Meredith's friendship with the author Caroline Norton.

CHAPTER II. AN IRISH BALL.


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IN THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS OF the capital city of the Sister Island there was a public Ball, to celebrate the return to Erin of a British hero of Irish blood, after his victorious Indian campaign; a mighty struggle splendidly ended; and truly could it be said that all Erin danced to meet him; but this was the pick of the dancing, past dispute the pick of the supping. Outside those halls the supping was done in Lazarus fashion, mainly through an excessive straining of the organs of hearing and vision, which imparted the readiness for more, declared by physicians to be the state inducing to sound digestion.