The Nether World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199538287)

The Nether World (1889), generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels, is a highly dramatic, sometimes violent tale of man's caustic vision shaped by the bitter personal experience of poverty. This tale of intrigue depicts life among the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers, documenting an inescapable world devoid of sentimentality and steeped with people scheming and struggling to survive. With Zolaesque intensity and relentlessness, Gissing lays bare the economic forces which determine the aspirations and expectations of those born to a life of labor.

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Author: George Gissing
ISBN-10: 019953828X
ISBN-13: 9780199538287
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2009
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.90d