The Nether World: Special Edition, Gissing George

Автор: George Gissing
Название: The Whirlpool
ISBN: 0141395648 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141395647
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The greatest of English realist novelists, famous for New Grub Street, the author creates an astonish picture of characters caught in the vortex of London, struggling to understand how they can make sense of their lives in a society of remorseless faithlessness and social snobbery.

Автор: George Gissing
Название: New Grub Street
ISBN: 0140430326 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140430325
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Presents a major social document and a story that draws us into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in Grub Street including Jasper Milvain, an ambitious journalist, and Alfred Yule, an embittered critic.

Автор: Gissing George
Название: George Gissing - In the Year of Jubilee: I Am Much Better Employed from Every Point of View, When I Live Solely for My Own Satisfaction
ISBN: 198425636X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781984256362
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 18670.00 T
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Описание: George Robert Gissing was born on November 22nd, 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He was educated at Back Lane School in Wakefield. Gissing loved school. He was enthusiastic with a thirst for learning and always diligent. By the age of ten he was reading Dickens, a lifelong hero. In 1872 Gissing won a scholarship to Owens College. Whilst there Gissing worked hard but remained solitary. Unfortunately, he had run short of funds and stole from his fellow students. He was arrested, prosecuted, found guilty, expelled and sentenced to a month's hard labour in 1876. On release he decided to start over. In September 1876 he travelled to the United States. Here he wrote short stories for the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. On his return home he was ready for novels. Gissing self-published his first novel but it failed to sell. His second was acquired but never published. His writing career was static. Something had to change. And it did. By 1884 The Unclassed was published. Now everything he wrote was published. Both Isabel Clarendon and Demos appeared in 1886. He mined the lives of the working class as diligently as any capitalist. In 1889 Gissing used the proceeds from the sale of The Nether World to go to Italy. This trip formed the basis for his 1890 work The Emancipated. Gissing's works began to command higher payments. New Grub Street (1891) brought a fee of 250. Short stories followed and in 1895, three novellas were published; Eve's Ransom, The Paying Guest and Sleeping Fires. Gissing was careful to keep up with the changing attitudes of his audience. Unfortunately, he was also diagnosed as suffering from emphysema. The last years of his life were spent as a semi-invalid in France but he continued to write. 1899; The Crown of Life. Our Friend the Charlatan appeared in 1901, followed two years later by The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. George Robert Gissing died aged 46 on December 28th, 1903 after catching a chill on a winter walk.

Автор: Gissing George
Название: Stray Leaves from the Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
ISBN: 1258811138 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258811136
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Автор: Gissing George
Название: The Nether World George Gissing
ISBN: 1542554535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781542554534
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Цена: 25570.00 T
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Автор: Gissing George
Название: The Odd Women: Special Edition
ISBN: 1718629931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781718629936
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Цена: 33330.00 T
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Автор: Gissing George
Название: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
ISBN: 1313386928 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781313386920
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Цена: 18850.00 T
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Автор: Gissing George
Название: New Grub Street
ISBN: 1717020429 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781717020420
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Цена: 23830.00 T
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Автор: Gissing George
Название: Demos
ISBN: 1717021352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781717021359
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Цена: 24080.00 T
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Автор: Gissing George
Название: Born in Exile
ISBN: 1986327159 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781986327152
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Цена: 25920.00 T
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Описание: Born in Exile is a novel by George Gissing first published in 1892. It deals with the themes of class, religion, love and marriage. The premise of the novel is drawn from Gissing's own early life - an intellectually superior man born into a socially inferior milieu, though the story arc diverges significantly from the actuality. The main protagonist, Godwin Peak, is a star student at Whitelaw College, which he won a scholarship to attend.

Автор: Gissing George
Название: New Grub Street
ISBN: 1986327043 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781986327046
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Описание: New Grub Street is a novel by George Gissing published in 1891, which is set in the literary and journalistic circles of 1880s London. Gissing revised and shortened the novel for a French edition of 1901. The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with hack literature; by Gissing's time, Grub Street itself no longer existed, though hack-writing certainly did.

Автор: Gissing George
Название: Born in Exile
ISBN: 1544605447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781544605449
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Описание: The summer day in 1874 which closed the annual session of Whitelaw College was marked by a special ceremony, preceding the wonted distribution of academic rewards. At eleven in the morning (just as a heavy shower fell from the smoke-canopy above the roaring streets) the municipal authorities, educational dignitaries, and prominent burgesses of Kingsmill assembled on an open space before the College to unveil a statue of Sir Job Whitelaw. The honoured baronet had been six months dead. Living, he opposed the desire of his fellow-citizens to exhibit even on canvas his gnarled features and bald crown; but when his modesty ceased to have a voice in the matter, no time was lost in raising a memorial of the great manufacturer, the self-made millionaire, the borough member in three Parliaments, the enlightened and benevolent founder of an institute which had conferred humane distinction on the money-making Midland town. Beneath such a sky, orations were necessarily curtailed; but Sir Job had always been impatient of much talk. An interval of two or three hours dispersed the rain-clouds and bestowed such grace of sunshine as Kingsmill might at this season temperately desire; then, whilst the marble figure was getting dried, -with soot-stains which already foretold its negritude of a year hence, -again streamed towards the College a varied multitude, official, parental, pupillary. The students had nothing distinctive in their garb, but here and there flitted the cap and gown of Professor or lecturer, signal for doffing of beavers along the line of its progress. Among the more deliberate of the throng was a slender, upright, ruddy-cheeked gentleman of middle age, accompanied by his wife and a daughter of sixteen. On alighting from a carriage, they first of all directed their steps towards the statue, conversing together with pleasant animation. The father (Martin Warricombe, Esq. of Thornhaw, a small estate some five miles from Kingsmill, ) had a countenance suggestive of engaging qualities-genial humour, mildness, a turn for meditation, perhaps for study. His attire was informal, as if he disliked abandoning the freedom of the country even when summoned to urban ceremonies. He wore a grey felt hat, and a light jacket which displayed the straightness of his shoulders. Mrs. Warricombe and her daughter were more fashionably equipped, with taste which proclaimed their social standing. Save her fresh yet delicate complexion the lady had no particular personal charm. Of the young girl it could only be said that she exhibited a graceful immaturity, with perchance a little more earnestness than is common at her age; her voice, even when she spoke gaily, was seldom audible save by the person addresse