The Whirlpool - Couverture souple

Gissing, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 046087781X ISBN 13 : 9780460877817

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1997

Synopsis

In this novel the marriage of Harvey Rolfe and Alma Frothingham is poisoned by sexual jealousy, selfish ambition and deceit. Harvey and Alma are caught up in the social whirlpool of London, as their initial desire for the simple life is drowned in the bustle and chaos of city life.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Whirlpool is a novel by English author George Gissing, first published in 1897. Gissing’s early novels were not well received, but he achieved greater recognition in the 1890s, both in England and overseas. The increase in popularity was linked not just to his novels, but to the short stories he wrote in this period and his friendships with influential and respected literary figures such as the journalist Henry Norman, author J. M. Barrie and writer and critic Edmund Gosse. By the end of the 19th century, critics placed him alongside Thomas Hardy and George Meredith as one of the three leading novelists in England. Sir William Robertson Nicoll described Gissing as ”one of the most original, daring and conscientious workers in fiction.” Chesterton called him the ”soundest of the Dickens critics, a man of genius.” George Orwell was an admirer and in a 1943 Tribune article called Gissing ”perhaps the best novelist England has produced”. He believed his ”real masterpieces” were the ”three novels, The Odd Women, Demos, and New Grub Street, and his book on Dickens. The central theme can be stated in three words — ‘not enough money’.”

Biographie de l'auteur

George Gissing (1857-1903) wrote a series of startling novels principally set in London, including New Grub Street, The Whirlpool, The Nether World and The Odd Women. He lived a chaotic, often poverty-striken life from which he frequently drew for his fiction. He is generally viewed as the greatest English realist novelist. He was a friend and contemporary of Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells and Henry James.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 046087781X
• ISBN 13: 9780460877817
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible