George Robert Gissing Books

In the Year of Jubilee is a romance novel by George Gissing, featuring the enchanting and sensual journey of Nancy Lord, a suburban heroine exploring romantic imagination and sexual initiation.

The book is a facsimile reprint of a scarce antiquarian work, preserving its historical significance despite potential imperfections like marks and flawed pages. It aims to protect and promote cultural literature by offering a modern edition that remains true to the original. This commitment highlights the importance of accessibility to classic texts for contemporary readers.

As a facsimile reprint of a scarce antiquarian work, this book preserves the original's historical significance while acknowledging potential imperfections from its age, such as marks and flawed pages. It aims to protect and promote important literature, offering readers access to a high-quality edition that remains true to the original text.

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series, aimed at reviving public domain literature in print. TREDITION supports non-profit literary projects and donates part of the proceeds from sales, allowing readers to help preserve remarkable works of world literature.

Focusing on urban social issues, this novel explores the harsh realities of poverty, cultural deprivation, class struggles, the tyranny of money, and women's roles in society. George Gissing employs his literary skill and personal insights to create a passionate and dramatic narrative. Originally published in 1880 as a three-volume work, this modern edition includes a comprehensive critical introduction and detailed scholarly notes, enhancing the reader's understanding of its themes and context.

The biography offers an in-depth look at Charles Dickens' life, crafted by his close friend John Forster, who had unique access to Dickens' family and friends. It explores significant periods, including Dickens' childhood, education, early career, and personal life. This new edition consolidates Forster's three volumes into one cohesive work, maintaining the original's illustrations and footnotes while introducing a new index for easier navigation.

Reproduction of the original: Demos by George Gissing

I am busy with the hawkweeds; that is to say, I am learning to distinguish and to name as many as I can. For scientific classification I have little mind; it does not happen to fall in with my habits of thought; but I like to be able to give its name (the "trivial" by choice) to every flower I meet in my walks. Why should I be content to say, "Oh, it's a hawkweed"?

The book is a facsimile reprint of a scarce antiquarian work, preserving its historical significance. While it may exhibit imperfections like marks and flawed pages due to its age, the reprint aims to maintain the authenticity of the original text. This initiative reflects a commitment to protecting and promoting important literary works, making them accessible in high-quality modern editions.

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 realism. 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. There is no sentimentality. This is a world in which the strong exercise power against their own kind, scheming and struggling for survival, a world from which, Gissing bleakly maintains, there can be no escape.