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en-wikipedia-org-4543		The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1618	165	73	The Ordeal of Richard Feverel First edition title page The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son (1859) is the earliest full-length novel by George Meredith; its subject is the inability of systems of education to control human passions. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel was first published in 1859 by Chapman & Hall in three volumes. B. Priestley wrote that "So far as English fiction is concerned...there can be no doubt that the modern novel began with the publication of The Ordeal of Richard Feverel." [8] Virginia Woolf's assessment was that: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel is referred to in E.M. Forster's 1910 novel Howards End. The aspirational character Leonard Bast mentions that it inspired him to leave London and take an all night walk into the countryside, because he "wanted to get back to the earth...like Richard does in the end."[10] It was referred to again in the Merchant-Ivory adaptation of Howards End, in which Leonard discreetly reads a passage from Richard Feverel at his work and dreams of walking in a bluebell wood. ^ Edward Mendelson (ed.) The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (London: Penguin, 1998) pp.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4543.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4543.txt