Bøker av George Gissing

The book, The Emancipated , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Isabel Clarendon is a young woman who gets married and enjoys all the traits that life offers, but it doesn''t lasts. Her husband gets ill and goes through three years of agony before he dies. Isabel, whose mother also died, then meets Bernard Kingcote, lonely and eccentric man who is left to make a way in the world without the bourgeois advantage of family money. Unaware of that they have already met very long time ago, the two become friends and their relationship slowly develops to something more. However, with Isabel''s relived tragedy and Kingcote''s eccentric ways, their relationship encounters troubles.

The storyline of the novel The Emancipated, written by George Gissing, is set in Italy. It depicts a group of British middle class intellectuals going on a tour through the countryside and doing things they might later either bless or regret. This book shows their adventures and search of identity.

The storyline of Our Friend the Charlatan is set in the countryside of England and its main character is a man in his late 20''s, Dyce Lashmar. Dyce is described in this book as "the coming man" and throughout the book he tries to find a perfect woman for himself - a "new woman". Even though he is Oxford educated and portrayed as an intellectual, is his search of a perfect woman, no one is more sexist than him. This book depicts his story - his downfall.

In the Year of Jubilee is a novel written by George Gissing and depicts the story of the romantic and sexual initiation of a suburban heroine, Nancy Lord. It shows marriage troubles and damages that industrial society made to the moral values.

George Robert Gissing (22 November 1857 - 28 December 1903) was a British novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Gissing also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. He published his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, in 1880. His best-known novels, which are published in modern editions, include The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893).