The Whirlpool

Name: The Whirlpool
Author: George Gissing
ISBN: 9781911263579

Author: George Gissing
Series: Timeless Classics
Language: English
Length: 518 pages
ISBN: 9781911263579
Published: 15 April 2016
Imprint: Sovereign

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Description

Alma's farther looses fortunes at his bank and commits suicide forcing his 20 years old daughter to go abroad to make plans and pursue her career. Two admirers follow her: Cyrus Redgrave a wealthy bachelor who makes an indecent proposal and Harvey Rolfe whom she ends up marrying.

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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