57 títulos para "Gissing George"

Mujeres singulares

Gissing, George

«En este feliz país nuestro hay medio millón más de mujeres que de hombres. [...] Tantas mujeres solteras para las que no existe posibilidad de pareja. Los pesimistas las llaman vidas inútiles, perdidas y vanas. Ni que decir tiene que yo, como parte integrante de ese grupo, no pienso así.» Estas pa...

La nueva Grub Street

Gissing, George

Cuarenta años después de Murger, George Gissing despojó de romanticismo a la bohemia y escribió uno de los retratos más graves y realistas de la fatalidad de la bohemia entrelazando el destino de dos parejas, los fracasos de una y los ascensos de la otra, el ansia de enriquecimiento de ambas, su trá...

The Odd Women

Gissing, George

Set in grimy, fog-ridden London, Gissing's `odd' women range from the idealistic Mary Barfoot and Rhoda Nunn, who run a school to train young women in office skills for work, to the Madden sisters struggling to subsist in low-paid jobs. Yet it is for the youngest Madden sister's marriage that the no...

The Nether World

Gissing, George

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 rea...

Our Friend the Charlatan

Gissing, George

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Workers in the Dawn

Gissing, George

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Workers in the Dawn

Gissing, George

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work,...

The Odd Women

Gissing, George

A novel of social realism, The Odd Women reflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Set in a grimy, fog-ridden London, Gissing's "odd" women range from the idealistic, financially self-sufficient Mary Barfoot to the Madden sisters who struggle to subsist in low pay...

Thyrza

Gissing, George

First published in 1887, Gissing intended Thyrza to "contain the very spirit of London working-class life". His story tells of Walter Egremont, an Oxford-trained idealist who gives lectures on literature to workers, some of them from his father's Lambeth factory. Thyrza Trent, a young hat-trimmer, m...

Born in Exile (Esprios Classics)

George Gissing

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 Gissings own early life - an intellectually superior man born into a socially inferior milieu, though the story arc diverges sign...

Nether World

George Gissing

An exploration of the class struggle in nineteenth century London where a potential inheritance turns family and friends into desperate foes eager to escape their circumstance. A compelling story about greed, deception and the innate need to survive. Michael Snowdon lives like a pauper despite inher...

New Grub Street

Gissing, George

New Grub Street (1891), generally regarded as Gissing's finest novel, is the story of the daily lives and broken dreams of men and women forced to earn a living by the pen. It tells of a group of novelists, journalists, and scholars caught in the literary and cultural crisis that hit Britain in the...