Farina: A Legend of Cologne
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Lucas Cranach the Elder and John Everett Millais. Cologne in the Middle Ages: a young man, a girl, a smell of sanctity, and the Devil — Meredith's second book of fiction and a burlesque, in which the perfume that made Cologne famous is traced to a source no one expected. He read manuscripts for a publisher for years, turning down other men's novels; this 1857 book is the one where his own style had not yet become difficult, and it is very funny. Fifty-nine plates, from Cranach to Munch, trace the young woman through five centuries of portraiture, a fitting companion to Meredith's tale of a girl at the center of an old city's legend.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Lucas Cranach the Elder and John Everett Millais. Cologne in the Middle Ages: a young man, a girl, a smell of sanctity, and the Devil — Meredith's second book of fiction and a burlesque, in which the perfume that made Cologne famo...
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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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