Eve's Ransom - Couverture souple

Gissing, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486240169 ISBN 13 : 9780486240169

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 1980

Synopsis

125p paperback, very good

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

On the station platform at Dudley Port, in the dusk of a February afternoon, half-a-dozen people waited for the train to Birmingham. A south-west wind had loaded the air with moisture, which dripped at moments, thinly and sluggishly, from a featureless sky. The lamps, just lighted, cast upon wet wood and metal a pale yellow shimmer; voices sounded with peculiar clearness; so did the rumble of a porter's barrow laden with luggage. From a foundry hard by came the muffled, rhythmic thunder of mighty blows; this and the long note of an engine-whistle wailing far off seemed to intensify the stillness of the air as gloomy day passed into gloomier night.

Biographie de l'auteur :

George Gissing wrote twenty - three novels before his death in 1903. His subject was life as it was lived in the London slums and by the lower classes of ordinary people. A perceptive and informed observer, Gissing wrote on the issues that surrounded him, such as the financial woes of artists and the hardships faced by single, educated women. His works feature psychological analysis and dark humor.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0486240169
• ISBN 13: 9780486240169
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 125