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Born in Exile

by George Gissing

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1892
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George Gissing knew poverty and thwarted ambition firsthand, and he pours both into Godwin Peak, one of his most uncomfortable creations. Born poor but fiercely intelligent, Peak burns with resentment at the class barriers that block his rise. A private unbeliever, he sets out to marry into a respectable, devout family by feigning a vocation for the Anglican priesthood, a deception that forces him to live a daily lie. The novel dissects late-Victorian faith, snobbery, and the loneliness of the self-made outsider with unflinching honesty and no easy comfort. It remains one of the sharpest studies of the man who belongs nowhere.

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George Gissing

George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist whose work drew on his own years of poverty and hardship. Author of New Grub Street and The Odd Women, he wrote unsparingly about class, money, and the frustrated ambitions of the educated poor in late Victorian England.

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First published
1892
Reading time
About 11 hours
Pages
476
Language
English
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