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egoist

[ee-goh-ist, eg-oh-] / ˈi goʊ ɪst, ˈɛg oʊ- /


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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 class of man represented by Vernon Whitford in The Egoist says, indeed, the true thing, but he says it stockishly. 

From Memories and Portraits by Stevenson, Robert Louis




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