The House of Cobwebs

The House of Cobwebs PDF Author: George Gissing
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Pages : 368

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The House of Cobwebs

The House of Cobwebs PDF Author: George Gissing
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Pages : 368

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HOUSE OF COBWEBS

HOUSE OF COBWEBS PDF Author: GEORGE. GISSING
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The House of Cobwebs

The House of Cobwebs PDF Author: George Gissing
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Pages : 368

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The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories PDF Author: George Gissing
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories is a series of political tales focusing on such topics as white-collar poverty, class differences, and social ambitions. Excerpt: "In England, during the sixties and seventies of the last century the world of books was dominated by one Gargantuan type of fiction. The terms book and novel became almost synonymous in houses that were not Puritan, yet where books and reading, in the era of few and unfree libraries, were strictly circumscribed. George Gissing was no exception to this rule. The English novel was at the summit of its reputation during his boyish days."

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories PDF Author: George Gissing
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The House of Cobwebs

The House of Cobwebs PDF Author: George Gissing
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528183956
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Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Excerpt from The House of Cobwebs: And Other Stories Future were clouded and obscured for the greater period of their working lives. Unobserved, they received, and made their own preparations for utilising, the legacy of the mid Victorian novel - moral thesis, plot, underplot, set characters, descriptive machinery, landscape colouring, copious phrase ology, Herculean proportions, and the rest of the cumbrous and grandiose paraphernalia of Chuzzlewit, Pendennis, and 1widdlemarch. But they received the legacy in a totally differ ent spirit. Mark Rutherford, after a very brief experiment, put all these elaborate properties and conventions reverently aside. Cleverer and more docile, George Gissing for the most part accepted them; he put his slender frame into the ponderous collar of the author of the Mill on the Floss, and nearly collapsed in wind and limb in the heart-breaking attempt to adjust himself to such an heroic type of harness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The House of Cobwebs

The House of Cobwebs PDF Author: George Gissing
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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The House of Cobwebs

The House of Cobwebs PDF Author: George Gissing
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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In England during the sixties and seventies of last century the world of books was dominated by one Gargantuan type of fiction. The terms book and novel became almost synonymous in houses which were not Puritan, yet where books and reading, in the era of few and unfree libraries, were strictly circumscribed. George Gissing was no exception to this rule. The English novel was at the summit of its reputation during his boyish days. As a lad of eight or nine he remembered the parts of Our Mutual Friend coming to the house, and could recall the smile of welcome with which they were infallibly received. In the dining-room at home was a handsomely framed picture which he regarded with an almost idolatrous veneration. It was an engraved portrait of Charles Dickens. Some of the best work of George Eliot, Reade, and Trollope was yet to make its appearance; Meredith and Hardy were still the treasured possession of the few; the reigning models during the period of Gissing's adolescence were probably Dickens and Trollope, and the numerous satellites of these great stars, prominent among them Wilkie Collins, William Black, and Besant and Rice.

The House of Cobwebs, and Other Stories

The House of Cobwebs, and Other Stories PDF Author: George Gissing
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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A collection of short stories written by English novelist George Gissing.

The House of Cobwebs

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Pages : 300

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