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George Gissing
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The House Of Cobwebs And Other Stories |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Hardcover |
| Pages: |
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292 |
| Date: |
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2004-08-01 |
| ISBN: |
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0809587572 |
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Wildside Press |
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1.5 pounds |
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6.14 x 9.13 x 1.18 inches |
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| Description: |
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Product Description
The distinctive qualities of Gissing at the time of his setting forth were a scholarly style, rather fastidious and academic in its restraint, and the personal discontent, slightly morbid, of a self-conscious student who finds himself in the position of a sensitive woman in a crowd. His attitude through life was that of a man who, having set out on his career with the understanding that a second-class ticket is to be provided, allows himself to be unceremoniously hustled into the rough and tumble of a noisy third. Circumstances made him revolt against an anonymous start in life for a refined and educated man under such conditions. They also made him prolific. He shrank from the restraints and humiliations to which the poor and shabbily dressed private tutor is exposed -- revealed to us with a persuasive terseness in the pages of _The Unclassed, New Grub Street, Ryecroft,_ and the story of _Topham's Chance._ Writing fiction in a garret for a sum sufficient to keep body and soul together for the six months following payment was at any rate better than this. The result was a long series of highly finished novels, written in a style and from a point of view which will always render them dear to the studious and the book-centered. . . .
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http://bookmooch.com/0809587572 |
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