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Demos

Author
George Gissing
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
504 pages
ISBN
9781911263517
Published
15 April 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • George Gissing
  • life
  • Victorian
  • family
  • relationship
  • romance
  • norms
  • rules
  • satire
  • humour

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A working man inherits, preaches socialism, and meets the Walthams’ world. Gissing’s Demos is money’s comedy and its cruelty: Mutimer’s mill, a marriage across class, the gap between the speech and the life. Reform as a plot that will not stay pure. Inheritance as a political accident. The mill, the meeting, the marriage — each asks whether the people are a cause or a convenience. Gissing does not flatter the answer. Mutimer’s mill will not stay a metaphor for long.

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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