Cobwebs Father And Other Tales

Author : George Gissing
Publisher : Alan Rodgers Books
ISBN 13 : 9781598187755
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories written by George Gissing and published by Alan Rodgers Books. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinctive qualities of Gissing at the time of his setting forth were a scholarly style, rather fastidious and academic in its restraint, and the personal discontent, slightly morbid, of a self-conscious student who finds himself in the position of a sensitive woman in a crowd. His attitude through life was that of a man who, having set out on his career with the understanding that a second-class ticket is to be provided, allows himself to be unceremoniously hustled into the rough and tumble of a noisy third. Circumstances made him revolt against an anonymous start in life for a refined and educated man under such conditions. They also made him prolific. He shrank from the restraints and humiliations to which the poor and shabbily dressed private tutor is exposed -- revealed to us with a persuasive terseness in the pages of "The Unclassed, New Grub Street, Ryecroft," and the story of "Topham's Chance." Writing fiction in a garret for a sum sufficient to keep body and soul together for the six months following payment was at any rate better than this. The result was a long series of highly finished novels, written in a style and from a point of view which will always render them dear to the studious and the book-centered. . . .