Excerpt from George Meredith The Man I am perhaps laying myself open to the reproach of writing an amplified snakes in Iceland chapter.' For the outside public Mr Meredith's life is but a chronological record of the publication of his writings; the reference books, Which give us ample particulars of the lives of noisy nonentities, give the scantiest informa tion about one of the greatest men of his age. And all that I can pretend to give here is such a compilation as is the result of collecting, since first my enthusiasm for the subject was awakened, any scraps of pub lished Meredithiana. 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.