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The Nether World

First published: 1889
Pages: 415

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Chapter 01: A Thrall of Thralls
22:38
Chapter 02: A Friend in Request
20:55
Chapter 03: A Superfluous Family
27:37
Chapter 04: Clara and Jane
24:24
Chapter 05: Jane is Visited
26:50
Chapter 06: Glimpses of the Past
30:16
Chapter 07: Mrs. Byass's Lodgings
24:45
Chapter 08: Pennyloaf Candy
29:21
Chapter 09: Pathological
31:42
Chapter 10: The Last Combat
21:54
Chapter 11: A Disappointment
21:11
Chapter 12: Io Saturnalia
29:25
Chapter 13: The Bringer of Ill News
16:41
Chapter 14: A Welcome Guest
17:14
Chapter 15: Sunlight in Dreary Places
27:49
Chapter 16: Dialogue and Comment
19:23
Chapter 17: Clem Makes a Disclosure
21:42
Chapter 18: The Joke is Completed
23:58
Chapter 19: A Retreat
24:59
Chapter 20: A Vision of Noble Things
30:36
Chapter 21: Death the Reconciler
31:49
Chapter 22: Watching from Ambush
27:55
Chapter 23: On the Eve of Triumph
27:16
Chapter 24: The Family History Progresses
37:43
Chapter 25: A Double Consecration
26:56
Chapter 26: Sidney's Struggle
30:47
Chapter 27: Clara's Return
17:23
Chapter 28: The Soup-Kitchen
26:01
Chapter 29: Phantoms
32:56
Chapter 30: On a Barren Shore
32:42
Chapter 31: Woman and Actress
33:49
Chapter 32: A Haven
37:40
Chapter 33: A Fall from the Ideal
22:32
Chapter 34: The Debt Repaid
27:13
Chapter 35: The Treasury Unlocked
19:56
Chapter 36: The Heir
32:04
Chapter 37: Mad Jack's Dream
34:23
Chapter 38: Joseph Transacts Much Business
46:48
Chapter 39: Sidney
47:01
Chapter 40: Jane
36:29

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George Gissing knew poverty from the inside, and it shows in this bleak portrait of London's working poor packed into the tenements of Clerkenwell. Several families scrape along against unemployment, illness, and the slow grinding of hope into resignation. When old Michael Snowdon comes home from Australia carrying a secret fortune, he dreams of using it to lift his granddaughter Jane and, through her, the wider poor around them. That plan collides with human weakness, greed, and the sheer weight of circumstance. Gissing offers no easy uplift and no rescue from above; his sympathy is real but his honesty is harder to take. It remains one of the most unflinching accounts of Victorian working-class life. Free to read as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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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.