Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: New Grub Street (1891), generally regarded as Gissing's finest novel, is the story of the daily lives and broken dreams of men and women forced to earn a living by the pen. With vivid realism it tells of a group of novelists, journalists, and scholars caught in the literary and cultural crisis that hit Britain in the closing years of the nineteenth century, as universal education, popular…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: 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 prevailing literary image of the New Woman and makes the point that unmarried women were generally viewed less as noble and romantic figures than as odd and marginal in relation to the ideal…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 227 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 438) Аннотация: This is a reissue of the previous World's Classics edition in the new, larger format and with the series name changed to Oxford World's Classics.