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Eve's Ransom

Author
George Gissing
Read by
Amara Wrenn
Language
English
Length
5 hours 10 minutes
ISBN
9781802566635
Published
1 June 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • George Gissing
  • life
  • travel
  • freedom
  • Victorian
  • family
  • relationship
  • romance
  • norms
  • rules

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Maurice Hilliard, a draughtsman on a hundred pounds a year, recovers a dead father’s debt and tries a year of freedom until the money ends. Gissing’s quiet novel follows a photograph of Eve Madeley, London and Paris with Patty Ringrose, and a woman poor enough to refuse romantic poverty. Cash as the real suitor: gratitude that will not ripen into love, Birmingham grit, careful letters, the cost of a year off the leash.

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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