George Gissing – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren George Gissing. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
587 produkter
New Grub Street
Av George Gissing, Katherine Mullin
Häftad, 2016
166 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.'Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of critical acclaim for his fourth novel, he has married the refined Amy Yule. But the brilliant future …
The Nether World
Av George Gissing, Stephen Gill
Häftad, 2008
154 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Nether World (1889) is generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels. A fast moving story of highly dramatic, sometimes violent scenes, it depicts life amongst the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers of Clerkenwell in the 1870s. But this is not just a novel of documentary …
The Odd Women
Av George Gissing, Patricia Ingham
Häftad, 2008
166 kr
Lägg i varukorg
`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd women - no making a pair with them.' The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the `New Woman' novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But in The Odd Women (1893) Gissing satirizes the …
Whirlpool
E-bok, 2015
108 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'Marriage rarely means happiness, either for man or woman; if it be not too grievous to be borne, one must thank the fates and take courage'.The greatest of English realist novelists, famous for New Grub Street, George Gissing creates in The Whirlpool an astonish picture of characters caught in the …
New Grub Street
Av George Gissing, Bernard Bergonzi
E-bok, 2005
105 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in …
Odd Women
E-bok, 2007
125 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Virginia and Alice Madden are 'odd women', growing old alone in Victorian England with no prospect of finding love. Forced into poverty by the sudden death of their father, they lead lives of quiet desperation in a genteel boarding house in London. Meanwhile, their younger sister Monica, struggles …
New Grub Street
E-bok, 2012
79 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'If only I had the skill, I would produce novels out-trashing the trashiest that ever sold fifty thousand copies'In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us …
New Grub Street
Av George Gissing, Katherine Mullin
E-bok, 2016
141 kr
Lägg i varukorg
''Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.'' Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of critical acclaim for his fourth novel, he has married the refined Amy Yule. But the brilliant future …
New Grub Street
Av George Gissing, Katherine Mullin
E-bok, 2016
141 kr
Lägg i varukorg
''Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.'' Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of critical acclaim for his fourth novel, he has married the refined Amy Yule. But the brilliant future …
Odd Women
Av George Gissing, Patricia Ingham
E-bok, 2000
138 kr
Lägg i varukorg
`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd women - no making a pair with them.''The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the `New Woman'' novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But in The Odd Women (1893) Gissing satirizes the …
Odd Women
Av George Gissing, Patricia Ingham
E-bok, 2000
141 kr
Lägg i varukorg
`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd women - no making a pair with them.''The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the `New Woman'' novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But in The Odd Women (1893) Gissing satirizes the …
Nether World
Av George Gissing, Stephen Gill
E-bok, 2008
110 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Nether World (1889) is generally regarded as the finest of Gissing''s early novels. A fast moving story of highly dramatic, sometimes violent scenes, it depicts life amongst the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers of Clerkenwell in the 1870s. But this is not just a novel of documentary …
New Grub Street
E-bok, 2007
70 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Hailed as Gissing’s finest novel, New Grub Street portrays the intrigues and hardships of the publishing world in late Victorian England. In a materialistic, class-conscious society that rewards commercial savvy over artistic achievement, authors and scholars struggle to earn a living without …
Odd Women
Häftad, 1971
314 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Five odd women—women without husbands—are the subject of this powerful novel, set in Victorian London, by a writer whose perceptions about people, particularly women, would be remarkable in any age and are extraordinary in the 1890s. The story concerns the choices that five different women have to …
Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 5
1892-1895
Av George Gissing, Paul F. Mattheisen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1050 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Gissing's career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems …
