The Nether World - Oxford World's Classics - George Gissing - Grāmatas - Oxford University Press - 9780199538287 - 2008. gada 11. decembris
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The Nether World - Oxford World's Classics

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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 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 netherworld. 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.


448 pages

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Izlaists 2008. gada 11. decembris
ISBN13 9780199538287
Izdevēji Oxford University Press
Lapas 448
Izmēri 129 × 196 × 21 mm   ·   312 g
Redaktors Gill, Stephen (Reader in English Literature, Reader in English Literature, Oxford University and Fellow of Lincoln College)

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