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The Nether World. A novel ... A new edition

Novel about London slum life in the 1870s and 1880s. Raw, Unsentimental, offering little comfort, viewing the working classes as condemned to a life in hell via industrialization, a life from which there is no hope of escape. It is one man's mordant vision--shaped by bitter personal experience of poverty--of the quality of life endured by a variety of characters in the nether world. With Zolaesque intensity and relentlessness, Gissing lays bare the economic forces which determine the aspirations and expectations of those born to a life of labour. This is a tale of intrigue, as rapacious schemers try to wrest a fortune out of a mysterious old man who has returned to their midst, and of thwarted love.

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  • "Michael Snowdon, in possession of a secret fortune, lives frugally, never revealing his wealth to anyone. He rescues his granddaughter from a life of toil, hoping to leave his wealth in her charitable hands. But the money complicates their lives, his plan fails, and this tale ends tragically for father, son, and granddaughter."
  • "Novel about London slum life in the 1870s and 1880s. Raw, Unsentimental, offering little comfort, viewing the working classes as condemned to a life in hell via industrialization, a life from which there is no hope of escape. It is one man's mordant vision--shaped by bitter personal experience of poverty--of the quality of life endured by a variety of characters in the nether world. With Zolaesque intensity and relentlessness, Gissing lays bare the economic forces which determine the aspirations and expectations of those born to a life of labour. This is a tale of intrigue, as rapacious schemers try to wrest a fortune out of a mysterious old man who has returned to their midst, and of thwarted love."@en
  • "Written in 1888, 'The Nether World' is a novel that depicts life amongst the poor in the Clerkenwell of the 1870s. Gissing's exposure of London's squalor and poverty is characterised by Zolaesque intensity and relentlessness."@en
  • "This 1889 volume offers the English novelist's portrayal of poverty and the working classes in London."@en

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