George Gissing

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Family Life

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George Gissing - Demos: A Story of English Socialism

«Richard Mutimer is delighted to inherit a large fortune. As a socialist, he means to use it well: he will open a factory in which workers would be treated well, he will advance his party's causes through his own...

KHand and 7 more 20 hours 55 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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George Gissing - New Grub Street

«The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synomynous with hack literature; as an institution,...

Bridget Gaige and 10 more 19 hours 34 minutes

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General Fiction

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George Gissing - Nether World

This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides this fact from everybody and spends money only on the things he really...

Elizabeth Klett and 9 more 18 hours 42 minutes

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Romance

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George Gissing - Life's Morning

This is the story of a poor young lady Emily Hood who while working as a governess falls in love with Wilfrid Athel the son of her employer. They become engaged, however things do not run smoothly after a visit home...

shihping and 5 more 17 hours 20 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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George Gissing - Unclassed

The Unclassed tells the story of two friends who are aspiring authors living in London in the late 19th century. Both of them fall in love. Both believe in social change but do not know how to bring it about. Both are...

Lynne T and 5 more 15 hours 41 minutes

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General Fiction

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George Gissing - In the Year of Jubilee

The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Jubilee depicts the harsh and disreputable conditions of lower-middle class life at the end of the...

skoval 15 hours

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General Fiction

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George Gissing - Odd Women

George Gissing's 1893 novel takes on the 19th century «Woman Question» by looking at themes of feminism, marriage, and love. The novel raises these issues through the lives of several contrasting women: Mary Barfoot,...

Elizabeth Klett 14 hours 8 minutes

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Travel Fiction

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George Gissing - Emancipated

In Italy, everything is possible. Or, at least, much more than in the oppressive social order of the Victorian era. A group of British expatriats go to tour the country and do things they might live to either bless or...

Lynne T and 3 more 14 hours 7 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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George Gissing - Crown Of Life

So what is the crown of life? Follow the journey of Piers and Irene as they attempt to discover. It is both a coming of age novel and love story at the same time, one which would bring delight to philosophers with...

annie70 and 1 more 14 hours 7 minutes

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Romance

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George Gissing - Our Friend The Charlatan

Dice Lashmore will do everything he can in in his quest to become rich. The key is, of course, finding a rich wife. This book describes his numerous courtships of women. It also describes the moral decline of a man...

Jim Locke 13 hours 43 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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George Gissing - House of Cobwebs and Other Stories

George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced by George Eliot, whose work he greatly admired. Another of his famous works,...

Kirsten Wever 9 hours 40 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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George Gissing - Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death. There is very little in the way of plot, but a great deal of quiet musing...

Peter Eastman 7 hours 44 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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