THE HOUSE ON THE BEACH

The House on the Beach by George Meredith is a novella which first appeared in print in 1877. The storyline of the novella focuses on an unhappy young woman which is forced by conscience to become inappropriately engaged to a far older man, who threatens to reveal the secret. The secret is not ordinary but nothing more than a usual event in the life of any person. The father of this woman turned out to be a deserter. She wanted to keep this secret but living circumstances didn't allow her to solve this issue.