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The Nether World (Oxford World's Classics) by George Gissing / edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Gill is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Nether World (Oxford World's Classics) about?
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 rel
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- George Gissing / edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Gill
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192669377
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (34 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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