Excerpt from A Chronological List of George Meredith's Publications: 1849-1911 My thanks are due to Mr. M. Buxton forman, Mr. R. H. P. Curle, and others, for help in compiling the following list, which originally formed part of vol. Xxvii. Of the Memorial Edition, and of vol. Xxxvi. Of the Edition de Luxe of George Meredith's Collected Works, and is now reissued separately with a few trifling alterations. The quickest way to find the date of first publica tion of any particular piece is to turn to the entry for the Edition de Luxe, 1896, etc., on pp. 25-29, where the dates are given against the contents of each volume. For information as to unauthorised editions and criticisms, etc., I would refer the inquirer to the Bibliographies by Mr. John Lane (in Mr. R. Le Gallienne's George Meredith, 1890 and 1900) and by myself (in the Literary Year Book, 1907, and separately, reprinted for Mr. W. T. Spencer in the same year), and, for an index of the publication of the Poems, to the latter. A. E. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

George Meredith was a lyrical yet searingly honest poet, and an influential novelist whose fiction distilled, contributed to and animated the major debates of the Victorian age. He became at once an arbiter of taste in his own times, and a trailblazer for modernism. In many ways an extraordinary, larger-than-life figure, he has always had his admirers, and critics have continued to be drawn to the biographical, socio-political, scientific and experimental aspects of his oeuvre. Some of his works, including the sonnets ofModern Love, his 'Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit', and novels like The Egoist, have attained the status of classics. The present study focuses on such works, putting them in context to show how innovatively this versatile writer shaped and reshaped his material, and how powerfully his inimitable voice still resonates with (and challenges) us in the twenty first century.