One of Our Conquerors: A Novel of the City of London
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Walter Sickert, Giovanni Boldini and Thomas Cole. A financier of enormous credit slips on a piece of orange peel on London Bridge, and the fall — social, marital, mental — takes the rest of the book. The marriage at the center of his fortune was never legal, and everyone he entertains knows it. Meredith wrote for years as a publisher's reader, keeping other men's novels out, and his own late style here is compressed to the point of puzzle. Fifty-five plates by painters such as John Atkinson Grimshaw and James Tissot follow the novel's London of moonlit Thames crossings, processions, and drawing rooms from 1807 to 1911.
Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Walter Sickert, Giovanni Boldini and Thomas Cole. A financier of enormous credit slips on a piece of orange peel on London Bridge, and the fall — social, marital, mental — takes the rest of the book. The marriage at the center of his fortune wa...
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George Meredith (1828–1909) was an English novelist and poet. He worked as a reader for the publisher Chapman & Hall and served as a war correspondent for the Morning Post during the Austro-Prussian War. His novels include The Egoist, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, and Diana of the Crossways.
George Meredith (1828–1909) was an English novelist and poet. He worked as a reader for the publisher Chapman & Hall and served as a war correspondent for the Morning Post during the Austro-Prussian War. His novels include The Egoist, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, and Diana of the Crossways.
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