Sandra Belloni — Volume 2

Meredith, George, 1828-1909Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 155K words
Chapters: 16

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Sandra Belloni — Volume 2 by George MeredithAuthor: Meredith, George, 1828-1909,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Sep 1, 2003

Editor's review

Volume 2 of Sandra Belloni picks up the characters and situations of Volume 1 and drives the story toward more concentrated conflict and shifting relationships. In this volume Meredith continues to display the sharpness of his dialogue and his analysis of his characters' inner contradictions; the narrative pace tightens somewhat compared with Volume 1, and readers can see more clearly how the main characters' choices are constrained by their social environment and their own temperaments. As a public-domain electronic text, this volume is best read in sequence with Volume 1, for examining how a Victorian novel organizes multi-volume narration and how it distributes climaxes and turns within a serial structure. For literary scholars, this volume can be set against Meredith's other works to observe the continuity of his ironic manner and psychological portraiture. General readers who read only Volume 2 may find it hard to enter the relationships for lack of prior context, so sequential reading is advised. The electronic edition facilitates searching names and keywords and is suitable for thematic rereading.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers who have finished Volume 1 and want to follow the plot
Literature students studying the structure of Victorian multi-volume novels
Readers interested in Meredith's irony and psychological portraiture
Researchers who need a public-domain English text for thematic searching

Not a good fit for

Readers who have not read Volume 1 and start directly with this volume
Readers expecting a standalone short work that requires no prior context
Readers with low tolerance for long nineteenth-century English sentences

Reading tips

Be sure to read Volume 1 first and sort out the relationships before entering this volume.
Focus on the main characters' choices in conflict and keep brief notes on the plot line.
After finishing, revisit the relevant passages in Volume 1 and compare changes in the characters' attitudes.
Use the electronic edition's search function to track a character's appearances across chapters.

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Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.

FAQ

Can I start reading directly from Volume 2?

Not advisable. The relationships and conflicts in this volume build on the groundwork of Volume 1; without that prior context, it is difficult to understand the motives behind the dialogue and the social situations, and reading in order is smoother.

How does the pace of this volume compare with Volume 1?

Compared with the groundwork of Volume 1, the conflicts here are more concentrated and the shifts in relationships more evident, but the overall pace remains that of Victorian narrative and requires patience to advance chapter by chapter.

Does the electronic edition contain the complete book?

This entry is labeled Volume 2 and covers only that volume; the complete story requires Volume 1 and subsequent volumes, and it should not be treated as the finished whole.

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About the author

Meredith, George, 1828-1909 Author

George Meredith (1828–1909) was a nineteenth-century British novelist and poet, whose works are represented here by as many as 111 titles, indicating that his writing has continued to circulate among readers and researchers. His representative work, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, centers on a father-son relationship and examines the conflicts of pride and emotion in a young man's growth; The Egoist, subtitled “A Comedy in Narrative,” uses marriage and social situations to portray character weaknesses and self-reflection. His novels are often marked by witty dialogue, psychological insight, and an ironic tone, with plot and character relationships unfolding layer by layer. Public information is limited, and biographical details remain to be supplemented, but the existing bibliography shows that narrative novels and multi-volume series form the main body of his work, reflecting the Victorian novel's detailed exploration of individual morality and emotional life.