Oxford World's Classics The Nether World, (Paperback)

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A fascinating story of late Victorian poverty in London . Like so many Victorian novels, it revolves around a will and issues of inheritance. The two central characters are a bit too good to be true and the villains are in the end not quite villainous enough which makes Gissing somewhat of acut p...

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This is my very favorite Victorian novel and would definitely be in my top 3 of all time favorite books ever. It is far more brutal, depressing, violent, miserable than anything Dickens wrote. The women characters break your heart, and the sense of hopelessness and despair never gives you a seco...

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This is my very favorite Victorian novel and would definitely be in my top 3 of all time favorite books ever. It is far more brutal, depressing, violent, miserable than anything Dickens wrote. The women characters break your heart, and the sense of hopelessness and despair never gives you a seco...