Our Friend the Charlatan

Name: Our Friend the Charlatan
Author: George Gissing
ISBN: 9781911263623

Author: George Gissing
Series: Timeless Classics
Language: English
Length: 430 pages
ISBN: 9781911263623
Published: 15 April 2016
Imprint: Sovereign

George Gissing
life
Victorian
family
relationship
romance
norms
rules
satire
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Description

As he waited for his breakfast, never served to time, Mr. Lashmar drummed upon the window-pane, and seemed to watch a blackbird lunching with much gusto about the moist lawn of Alverholme Vicarage. But his gaze was absent and worried. The countenance of the reverend gentleman rarely wore any other expression, for he took to heart all human miseries and follies, and lived in a ceaseless mild indignation against the tenor of the age.

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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