Author: John Thomas Scharf
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Category : Delaware
Languages : en
Pages : 1142

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Author: George Gissing
Publisher: DigiCat
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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."

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.

Author: George Gissing
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Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: George Gissing
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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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.

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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Author: Barbara Rawlinson
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042020857
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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This comprehensive study of George Gissing's short stories and related non-fiction is essential reading for students of nineteenth-century realism. For the first time readers will be able to follow the development which transformed Gissing's unremarkable early stories into the very individual tales that elevated his work to the vanguard of realistic short fiction. Gissing's American period is notable for its accumulation of themes that were repeatedly refined and adapted for his later work, causality emerging as the dominant voice. On his return to England, shifting political and philosophical beliefs expressed in his non-fiction had a vital impact on his second phase of short fiction, and the part played by realism in the author's short stories and his writings on Charles Dickens added further dimensions to his work as a whole. By the final phase of Gissing's remarkable development, it is evident that his interest in the concept of causality as the major force in his short work had been replaced by a more challenging preoccupation with the human psyche. This introduced philosophical, sociological and psychological dimensions to Gissing's work that established him in the field of short fiction as a leading exponent of late nineteenth-century realism

Author: George Stevenson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Hyde Park Public Library (Mass.)
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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