The Nether World (World's Classics) - Softcover

Gissing, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192817698 ISBN 13: 9780192817693

Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

The Nether World (1889) is generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels. A fast moving story of highly dramatic, sometimes violent scenes, it depicts life amongst the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers of Clerkenwell in the 1870s. But this is not just a novel of documentary realism. It is one man's mordant vision - shaped by bitter personal experience of poverty - of the quality of life endured by a variety of characters in the nether world. With Zolaesque intensity and relentlessness, Gissing lays bare the economic forces which determine the aspirations and expectations of those born to a life of labour. This is a tale of intrigue, as rapacious schemers try to wrest a fortune out of a mysterious old man who has returned to their midst, and of thwarted love. There is no sentimentality. This is a world in which the strong exercise power against their own kind, scheming and struggling for survival, a world from which, Gissing bleakly maintains, there can be no escape. This book is intended for general readers, students of Victorian literature, and the nineteenth century novel.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0192817698
• ISBN 13: 9780192817693
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 438
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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