George Gissing eBooks
eBooks di George Gissing editi da E Bookarama
The Nether World. E-book. Formato EPUB George Gissing - E-Bookarama, 2024 -
First published in 1889, "The Nether World" is generally regarded as the finest of George Gissing's early novels.This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides this fact from everybody and spends money only on the things he really needs. He contemplates leaving his money to his granddaughter Jane, under the condition that she donate at least most of it to charity. However, Jane is not sure she can do it. This novel tells much about working class life in 19th century London. Rich in naturalistic detail, the novel concentrates on the individual problems and hardships which result from the typical shortages experienced by the lower classes — want of money, employment and decent living conditions.
New Grub Street. E-book. Formato EPUB George Gissing - E-Bookarama, 2025 -
"New Grub Street" is an 1891 novel and masterpiece by British author George Gissing. Based on Gissing’s own struggle to find paid work as a fledgling author (and even in the middle of his career), it characterises the low-paid, low-quality genre known as “hack literature” for which he wrote. The book’s title refers to Grub Street in London, which was known, before Gissing’s time, for its strong presence of hack writers and publishers. The story follows two writers: the talented, reserved, and underemployed novelist Edwin Reardon, and the young, industrious, but cynical journalist Jasper Milvain. The authors have distinctly different attitudes towards the project of writing in general: Reardon views it as a tool for individual self-expression, while Milvain is sceptical whether it has a purpose at all in the modern world. "New Grub Street" is significant for illuminating the tenuous relationship that the Victorian era had with writers, who often strongly resented the capitalist system that they had no choice but to work within and which undermined their desire to write freely.