The Egoist

George Meredith

⏱ 8 minVictorian classic

A handsome, rich, monstrously self-centred man expects the women who love him to be mere mirrors of his perfection, until his clear-eyed fiancee sees the towering egoism beneath and struggles to break free. Meredith's brilliant comedy of vanity.

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