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The Nether World

Author
George Gissing
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
468 pages
ISBN
9781911263463
Published
15 April 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • George Gissing
  • lower classes
  • money
  • employment
  • living conditions
  • satire
  • humour
  • British
  • materialism
  • consumerism

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Description

Clerkenwell and the London under-floors: the Hewetts, Sidney Kirkwood, Jane Snowdon, work that does not lift. Gissing’s Nether World is Victorian poverty without the rescue. Love flickers; circumstance is heavier. A novel of class as weather, and of dignity that has nowhere to sit. No rescue from a rich cousin. Gissing stays in the rent and the pawnshop, among people whose luck is a rumour. Grim, precise, and oddly respectful of those it will not save.

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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