Télécharger le livre :  New Grub Street
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'Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.' Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of critical acclaim for his fourth novel, he has married the refined Amy...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-09-15

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Télécharger le livre :  New Grub Street
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'Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.' Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of critical acclaim for his fourth novel, he has married the refined Amy...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-09-14

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Télécharger le livre :  The Whirlpool
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'Marriage rarely means happiness, either for man or woman; if it be not too grievous to be borne, one must thank the fates and take courage'.The greatest of English realist novelists, famous for New Grub Street, George Gissing creates in The Whirlpool an astonish...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-02-05

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George Gissing's best-known novel shows us the literary underbelly of Victorian England, and the writers striving to forge their reputations in 'the street of no shame'. ...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-08-07

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Télécharger le livre :  New Grub Street
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'If only I had the skill, I would produce novels out-trashing the trashiest that ever sold fifty thousand copies'In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-10-25

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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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-12-11

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Télécharger le livre :  The Odd Women
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Virginia and Alice Madden are 'odd women', growing old alone in Victorian England with no prospect of finding love. Forced into poverty by the sudden death of their father, they lead lives of quiet desperation in a genteel boarding house in London. Meanwhile, their...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-01-25

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In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-09-29

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Télécharger le livre :  The Odd Women
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`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd women - no making a pair with them.' The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the `New Woman' novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But in The Odd Women...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2000-01-06

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`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd women - no making a pair with them.' The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the `New Woman' novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But in The Odd Women...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2000-01-06

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