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Thyrza
George Gissing
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Community Reviews
After "Demos" Gissing felt he still had another working class
novel in him - this time he wanted to concentrate on working
girls and the way they were exploited. Gissing's novels are
grim and depressing because they mirror his own life. Like
Ergemont and Gilbert Grail, Gissing felt the way to elevate
wor
A New Edition Of Gissing's Thyrza
The late Victorian novelist George Gissing (1857 -- 1905) is best known for "New Grub Street" and "The Odd Women", two books that he wrote in mid-life. Other that these two novels, Gissing's works frequently are difficult to find. Interested readers frequently must s
George Gissing’s ‘Thyrza’ so defies criticism that it is amazing that it remains all but forgotten today. Here is Gissing at his best, in the issues so dear to him: social inequalities and class differences, mismatched couples, great love and shallow infatuation, the quality of education, the follie
*2.75 stars. My least favorite Gissing. I probably shouldn't have finished it, so tedious did I find certain sections, but I have a hard time abandoning a book. There were some good scenes and minor characters--as well as the quotations listed below. The problem: the titular character. I found her f
George Gissing is a remarkable novelist. He wrote twenty-three novels, published between 1880 and 1905, most now completely unknown except to the occasional academic specialist—and yet the quality of his writing seems to me consistently strong and distinctive. I have read five Gissing novels since 2
Heart-breaking, warm and deep-felt. Among my favorite by Gissing. The story is framed beautifully, the characters inter-mix in such naturally tragic mis-jointure of movements. It has the beauty and tragic fatalism, the loving characters grow close to you.
Thyrza
"And thou art dead, as young and fair
As aught of mortal birth;
And form so soft and charms so rare
Too soon return'd to Earth!"
George Gordon Lord Byron, "Elegy on Thyrza"
George Gissing's (1857 -- 1903)novel "Thyrza" (1887) centers upon the death of a beautiful, young woman with the unusual name