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The Nether World
George Gissing
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Paperback. Editor(s): Gill, Stephen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 308.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
314g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199538287
SKU
V9780199538287
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