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George Gissing es especialmente conocido por sus novelas La nueva Grub Street (New Grub Street) y Mujeres sin pareja (The Odd Women) pero éstas son sólo las obras más destacadas de una carrera que, pese a ser corta, se caracterizó por una laboriosidad implacable: escribió otras 21 novelas, más de cien de relatos breves, un libro de viajes, crítica literaria y ensayos.
George Gissing. George Gissing (1857-1903) English author considered one of the most valuable contributors to late Victorian era literature, author of New Grub Street (1891). George Robert Gissing was born on 22 November 1857 at Thompson's Yard, Westgate, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. His father, who died when he was thirteen, Thomas Waller ...
Search for: 'George Gissing' in Oxford Reference ». (1857–1903),educated at Owen's College, Manchester. Caught stealing from school friends to support a prostitute, Nell Harrison, he was sentenced to a month's hard labour. He subsequently worked in America.
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 ...
George Gissing Biography. George Gissing (born November 22, 1857, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England—died December 28, 1903, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France) was an English novelist, an unswerving realist whose primary subjects were people of lower birth. As a subscriber of the naturalist school, his works dealt with an artistic expression of the banal ...
8 de jun. de 2018 · GISSING, GEORGE (1857–1903), British novelist and man of letters. George Robert Gissing was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in 1857. A brilliant classics student, he seemed destined for an academic career but his prospects were ruined when, at the age of eighteen, he was imprisoned for stealing money to support a young prostitute whom he later ...
21 de ene. de 2024 · Author Index: Gi. George Robert Gissing. (1857–1903) sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, Commons category, quotes, Wikidata item. English novelist. Although his early works are naturalistic, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era. Best known novels, include The Nether World (1889 ...
