"Evan Harrington — Complete" by George Meredith George Meredith OM was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats, among others, but he gradually established a reputation as a novelist. In this book Evan, a Victorian man finds his way into the upper levels of society as he falls in love with a countess. Feigning himself a gentleman, this book explores the world of the elite from the eyes of an outsider.