egoist

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Not many could have been disappointed at the announcement: The Egoist, by its end, boasted a print run of just four hundred, and a mere forty-five subscribers.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2019

The essay appeared in the September and December, 1919, issues of The Egoist, the London-based little magazine for which Eliot had been serving as an assistant editor since June, 1917.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2019

The Egoist carried a subtitle, “An Individualist Review”; in its pages, Eliot seeks to put individualism in its place.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2019

It directed that communication with "The Egoist" be inserted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over the name of "Percy Minnie."

From Time Magazine Archive

The immense gain in depth and delicacy acquired by English fiction since Richardson is well illustrated by a comparison of the latter's "Sir Charles Grandison" with Meredith's "The Egoist."

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard