Ego: A Novel

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Hardcover in Very Good+ condition, 12mo, pages: [ii],258,10 ads. Brown cloth with black-stamped title on top board, decorative border, spine titles in gold. Spine ends worn, tips lightly bumped and worn, prior owner name and date (11/18, 82) on first blank, very nice copy. First edition (Wright III 2051). Uncommon volume. Bookseller accession no.: 12235. From a review in the May 1881 issue of The Atlantic, (The title, Ego) "is merely the author?s emphatic way of saying that in the story which he has to tell he means to vindicate the power of the personal will, and to demonstrate the vanity of circumstance. He sets about this task, however, in a manner which renders one somewhat skeptical of the demonstration, for the Ego which rides triumphant at the close of the book has been in alliance with fate and fortune to an extraordinary degree." and ".there is such a general cloudiness about the scenes that even the appearance of historic names and geographic details fails to impart any special reality to the story." Certainly not a "two thumbs up" endorsement. N° de ref. del artículo 002023

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