The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith

Description

Lord Fleetwood is rich, wayward, and cursed with a talent for hurting the people he loves. Carinthia Jane is a poor, proud girl schooled in the mountains of the Tyrol, where honour is simpler and colder than in the drawing rooms of England. Their wedding, landed in a handful of heedless days, touches off the long processional of the novel: an estrangement that lasts for years and a wisdom that arrives slowly for both of them.

Meredith wrote the book at the summit of his powers, and it shows every element of his strange genius: the comic chorus of gentlemen gossips, the dazzling talk, and a prose that asks more of the reader and repays it richly.

Why readers still come back to it

• Meredith’s deepest study of marriage, funny and desolate at once.
• A heroine utterly unlike any Victorian heroine before her.
• Chorus, comedy, and mountain grandeur in a completely original novel.

About this DodaBooks edition

Set for the demands of Meredith’s prose: clear type, a dependable table of contents, and generous chapter length that keeps the argument visible. The books of the story arrive together the instant your purchase confirms.