The Nether World - Oxford World's Classics - George Gissing - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199538287 - December 11, 2008
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The Nether World - Oxford World's Classics

George Gissing

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The Nether World - Oxford World's Classics

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 intrigue, as rapacious schemers try to wrest a fortune out of a mysterious old man who has returned to their midst, and of thwarted love. There is no sentimentality. This is a world in which the strong exercise power against their own kind, scheming and struggling for survival, a world from which, Gissing bleakly maintains, there can be no escape.


448 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 11, 2008
ISBN13 9780199538287
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 448
Dimensions 129 × 196 × 21 mm   ·   312 g
Editor Gill, Stephen (Reader in English Literature, Reader in English Literature, Oxford University and Fellow of Lincoln College)

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