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George Gissing
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Project Gutenberg 2003
George Gissing's The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of 'odd' or 'redundant' women, the cultural impact of 'the new woman,' and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service...
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George Gissing
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1891
The story of men and women forced to make their living by writing. Their daily lives and broken dreams, made and marred by the rigors of urban life and the demands of the fledgling mass communications industry, are presented with vivid realism and unsentimental sympathy.
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George Gissing
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Cassell 1895
The Paying Guest is a satirical novella by George Gissing, first published in 1895 by Cassell. It recounts the experiences of the Mumfords, a middle-class family who invite a 'paying guest' into their home to supplement their income. Written in an unusually comic tone compared with Gissing's earlier works....
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George Gissing
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Chapman and Hall 1901
A charming social satire about Dyce Lashmar, a young Oxford educated man with no discernible talents, but an unwavering confidence in his own abilities. Gissing remains relatively unfamiliar to most readers, and this book is a rarity even to his admirers. The book was written late in the author's...
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George Gissing
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Smith, Elder & Co. 1888
Originally entitled Emily, it tells the story of a poor, yet cultivated, young woman, Emily Hood, from a small town in the north of England. While serving as a governess to a wealthy country family.
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George Gissing
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Lawrence & Bullen 1895
Eve's Ransom is a short novel concerning the efforts of a young man to, in effect, buy the affection of a mysterious young woman. Introspective, thoughtful people struggling to balance very human impulses with a sense of social responsibility.
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George Gissing
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Smith, Elder & Co. 1886
It tells the story of a young, lower-class, Radical working-man, Richard Mutimer, who unexpectedly inherits a large fortune. He becomes the leader of a socialist movement and decides to use his inheritance to set up a cooperative factory.
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George Gissing
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Methuen & Co. 1899
In this novel, a struggling young man sets his mind, quite arbitrarily, on gaining one particular woman's affection. It looks like mission impossible, for social reasons, but he doesn't give up and keeps dreaming and trying for years. The target woman was a tease when they met, while the...
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George Gissing
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Dodd, Mead and company 1898
When this study first appeared in 1898 it was praised as the first piece of thorough and level-headed criticism of Charles Dickens and his works.
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George Gissing
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T. Fisher Unwin 1895
'Sleeping Fires' (1895) is a short novella that explores the possibility of finding a former love and overcoming grief and guilt in middle and late life. The protagonist initially struggles in the clutches of fate but then comes to terms with existence and its challenges.