Thyrza

Name: Thyrza
Author: George Gissing
ISBN: 9781911263586

Author: George Gissing
Series: Timeless Classics
Language: English
Length: 642 pages
ISBN: 9781911263586
Published: 15 April 2016
Imprint: Sovereign

George Gissing
life
betrayal
freedom
Victorian
family
relationship
romance
norms
rules

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Description

Thyrza Trent, a young hat-trimmer, meets and falls in love with Walter Egremont, an Oxford-trained idealist who gives lectures on literature to workers. Trapped by birth and circumstance, Thyrza is attempting to escape her destiny in this tale of ambition, romance, betrayal and disillusionment.

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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