A brilliant, self-regarding gentleman is dissected through his treatment of the women he courts, until his egoism undoes him. Meredith's sharp comic study of male vanity.
Books mentioned in The Egoist (1)
Satires and Epistles by Horace: “His name was Horace. Her father had worked with her at Horace. She knew most of the Odes and some of the Satires and Epistles of the poet.”
Books that mention The Egoist (1)
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf: “The Egoist at once modifies our theory that Meredith is pre-eminently the master of great scenes.”