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The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)
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This is a lesser-known classic that deserves more recognition that it gets. It is a novel about the plight of single "old maid" women during the victorian era. Back then, women who would not or could not get married were condemned to a life of poverty and despair. They survived only by working in sweat shops and nearly starving to death. They were ... »
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New Grub Street (Penguin Classics)
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Poor Gissing! I suspect his miserable, self-destructive life fuelled his wonderful novels much as (we now know) Dickens's traumatic "blacking-factory" experience explains so much of the nightmare world of those gargantuan fictions. Gissing greatly admired Dickens, and like Dostoyevsky, seems to have appreciated the grim side of Dickens most. Not muc... »
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Born in Exile
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While Born in Exile is certainly a novel, it is actually a study of the spiritual/social upheavals during 1890s Britain. The aristocracy was losing its hold on power in the media, government and the church to the 'radicals', namely the emerging working class in democratic society. The main character in this novel is caught in the crossroads. On the ... »
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The Whirlpool (Everyman's Library)
Gissing has few equals in writing about relationships, especially relationships between men and women. Here he does particularly well in describing how a... »
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