The Nether World
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Gill, Stephen (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-266937-7
- EAN: 9780192669377
- Produktnummer: 38080819
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Plattform: EPUB
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