Veranilda

Name: Veranilda
Author: George Gissing
ISBN: 9781911263593

Author: George Gissing
Series: Timeless Classics
Language: English
Length: 356 pages
ISBN: 9781911263593
Published: 15 April 2016
Imprint: Sovereign

George Gissing
life
betrayal
freedom
Victorian
family
relationship
romance
norms
rules

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Description

The love story is not an unrequited romance—the two lovers are aware of their feelings for each other—as much as it is an unrewarded one, for the plot revolves around keeping the two from each other, as Veranilda becomes a pawn between the competing courts of Justinian and Totila. The story of Veranilda takes place during the time of the Gothic King Totila’s advance on Naples and Rome.

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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