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| | 1. | [no image] | New Grub Street
from Modern Library
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Poor Gissing! I suspect his miserable, self-destructive life fuelled his wonderful novels much as (we now know) Dickens's traumatic "blacking-factory" experience explains so much of the nightmare world of those gargantuan fictions. Gissing greatly admired Dickens, and like Dostoyevsky, seems to have... more info
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| | 2. |  | The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $10.17
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This is a lesser-known classic that deserves more recognition that it gets. It is a novel about the plight of single "old maid" women during the victorian era. Back then, women who would not or could not get married were condemned to a life of poverty and despair. They survived only by working in... more info
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| | 3. |  | The Nether World (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $15.88
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In "The Nether World," Gissing gives you another one of his hard, realistic looks at life in London in Victorian times. This time he focuses on the poorest of the poor in the Clerkenwell area of London. These are people whom England's infantile labor laws generally can't help. If/When they can find... more info
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| | 4. |  | Charles Dickens A Critical Study
from Kessinger Publishing
Price: $16.97
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SINCE I OWN THE 104 YEARS OLD SET OF BOOKS, I ENJOYED READING THIS AND WRITING NOTES [IN THE MARGINS] FOR SCHOOL CLASSES. THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH THE OLD BOOKS..IT WOULD DESTORY THEM...AND AMAZON WILL FIND A BOOK FOR ANYONE IF THE QUESTION IS ASKED. THANKS AMAZON FOR RESEARCH...DORAN E. FIGART
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| | 5. | [no image] | In the Year of Jubilee
from Dover Publications Inc.
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Sad to say, most people, even those who are fans of Victorian-era literature, have probably never heard of George Gissing. Those who do know him think perhaps he was a 'one hit wonder' with New Grub Street. While New Grub Street is a brilliant read, his little known In the Year of the Jubilee (IYJ)... more info
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| | 8. |  | Born In Exile
from Brown Press
Price: $33.45
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It seems astounding to me that Gissing is so over-looked, as he has much to offer readers. It seems that his body of work is unjustifiably ignored even by afficianados of Victorian fiction and persons interested in the transformations from late 1800s into the modern, industrial 20th century. Gissing... more info
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| | 10. |  | The Unclassed
from Echo Library
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As usual, Gissing is unsparing in his depiction of the lives of the working class. Some of the characters are not wholly convincing - especially the key character Ida, the former prostitute with a heart of gold, and Maud, the pure and self-denying - and there are maybe a few too many subplots, but... more info
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