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Title: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son (Penguin Classics) by George Meredith, Edward Mendelson ISBN: 0-14-043483-6 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: for Brit Lit specialists
Comment: I don't think it's something you'd want to read for its own sake unless you have a particular interest in the development of the novel in in the nineteenth century. The plot concerns the efforts of Sir Austin Feverel to prevent his son's marriage and then to break it up. There are ponderous attemps at humor. A tragic and melodramatic ending is tacked on. The story is often difficult to follow, with characters being assigned different names. Jane Austen had already shown how a a tight light novel could be constructed. Madame Bovary had been written (for the diffference between mediocrity and genius compare the descriptions of the food at the wedding breakasts in this and in Madame Bovary). This has the clumsy baggy long-winded structure of Dickens (who was writing Great Expectations at the sme time) but without the great characters and confrontations. This was popular literature in its time, and considered scandalous.

Rating: 5
Summary: Style of the time
Comment: Excellent example of the style of the time.

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