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Born in Exile

Author
George Gissing
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
516 pages
ISBN
9781911263500
Published
15 April 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • George Gissing
  • life
  • Victorian
  • family
  • relationship
  • romance
  • norms
  • rules
  • satire
  • humour

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Godwin Peak will not stay where he was born. Gissing’s Born in Exile is brains against class: education as a ladder, love as a test, the lie that sometimes looks like a way through. Victorian England, sharp as a scholarship exam. Peak wants the inner circle and will wear a belief if it opens the door. The cost is a self split for promotion. Gissing on merit, snobbery, and the hunger to pass. Peak will wear a belief if it opens the drawing-room door.

Author

George Gissing (1857–1903) was the most unflinching realist of late Victorian England — a novelist who wrote what others preferred not to see. In New Grub Street he exposed the bitter economics of literary life: talent ground down by poverty, compromise, and the market. The Nether World, Born in Exile, and The Odd Women extended that clear-eyed vision to slum existence, intellectual exile, and the precarious lives of unmarried women.

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