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Bezig met laden... The Nether World (1889)door George Gissing
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 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 second respite. People starve, there is domestic violence, children die, people live in hovels that have more dust and dirt than furniture or bedding. Thoroughly depressing and grim, but that is precisely why I love it so much. If you all turn away or pretend to be an ostrich, and make believe these things are not happening, nothing gets better. I am a former caseworker for adoption and foster care, and we removed so many children from potential lives of horror, although the foster homes they went to often had a lot to be desired, as they were in the same neighborhoods where they were born. It was a color problem, which I can't expand upon here, but one that is quite sad, and if the problem did not exist, many more children would have been saved. We are ( and should be ) our brother's keepers, especially when it comes to children who are suffering and dying daily, because want to ' mind their own business ' or ' not get involved '. 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 price Dickens. Nevertheless, a thoroughly enjoyable novel. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Classic Literature.
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HTML: Although he was overlooked in the early years of his literary career, British novelist George Gissing eventually rose to acclaim, largely on the strength of his unflinching portrayal of the lives of England's less fortunate. Regarded as one of his most accomplished works, The Nether World follows the intertwined fates of three impoverished families, all tied together through central figure Sidney Kirkwood. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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