In the Year of Jubilee is a romance novel by George Gissing. It depicts a captivating and sensual story of the romantic imagination and sexual initiation of our suburban heroine, a woman named Nancy Lord.
In the Year of Jubilee is a romance novel by George Gissing. It depicts a captivating and sensual story of the romantic imagination and sexual initiat...
This novel 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, who wins many academic prizes and his future seems promising. Then his Cockney uncle arrives intending to open an eating-house adjacent to the college. Godwin is mortified of being associated with 'trade' and leaves the college rather than face the scorn...
This novel deals with the themes of class, religion, love and marriage. The premise of the novel is drawn from Gissing's own early life - an intellect...
The Odd Women is a novel by George Gissing. Its topics are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement. The novel begins with the Madden sisters and their childhood friend in Clevedon. After various travails, the adult Alice and Virginia Madden move to London and renew their friendship with Rhoda, an unmarried bluestocking. She is living with the also unmarried Mary Barfoot, and together they run an establishment teaching secretarial skills to young middle-class women remaindered in the marriage equation.
The Odd Women is a novel by George Gissing. Its topics are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement. The novel b...
The novel Emancipated is a proclamation of freedom amid the buttoned-up Victorian society. It tells of a young widowed English woman traveling through Italy. She finds out that rigid and flinty English behave quite differently abroad. In Naples, passion rules over reason, and the beautiful young widow starts a new life. But, will it be different upon returning home?
The novel Emancipated is a proclamation of freedom amid the buttoned-up Victorian society. It tells of a young widowed English woman traveling through...
New Grub Street is set in the literary and journalistic circles of 1880s London. In the 18th century, Grub Street became synonymous with hack literature, and though the street no longer existed in 1880s, hack-writing certainly did. The two central characters are a sharply contrasted pair of writers: Edwin Reardon, a novelist of some talent but limited commercial prospects, and a shy, cerebral man; and Jasper Milvain, a young journalist, hard-working and capable of generosity, but cynical and only semi-scrupulous about writing and its purpose in the late Victorian world.
New Grub Street is set in the literary and journalistic circles of 1880s London. In the 18th century, Grub Street became synonymous with hack literatu...
