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The Whirlpool
George Gissing
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'Much the same as usual, except that her father is in very bad health. It's brutal, but I wish he would die.'
'Naturally.'
'That's what one's driven to, you see. And anyone but you, who know me, would set me down as a selfish, calculating beast. Can't help it. I had rather have her penniless.—Will you come in here with me? I want to buy some pyrogallic acid.'
In the street again, Morphew mentioned that he had taken up photography.
'It gives me something to do, and it takes me out into the open air. This beastly town is the ruin of me, in every way.—Come to my rooms for an hour, will you? I'll show you some attempts; I've only just tried my hand at developing. And it's a long time since we had a talk.'
They made for a Chelsea omnibus and mounted.
'I thought you were never in town at this time,' Morphew resumed. 'I want to get away, but can't afford it; devilish low-water. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
This is my favourite Gissing novel - everything close and
bitter to his heart came together in this book - dysfunctional
families, (Gissing was an expert) women's vanity and his very
forward thinking ideas on children's development. The 1890s
were the time of his greatest literary success but privately
not my favourite of gissing’s work, characters were quite unlikeable and the story a little slow
“The whirlpool it’s got hold of me, and I’m going down old man- and it looks black as hell”
Written in 1897 at the time Victorian valves were changing, Harvey Rolf a confirmed bachelor married Alma, an ambitious musician. George Gissing has “encapsulates the glamour and darkness of the end of a centu
Maybe 3.5. I enjoyed this, and it's certainly an intriguing, complex book, with interesting themes and some great climactic moments. It didn't impress me as much as the other Gissing books I've read, though – I didn't warm to the characters, the pacing felt a little off and the ending didn't feel qu
One of the top five books I’ve ever read that explore marriage. This book does a great job of exploring people’s ideas about marriage. Like New Grub Street, there is a feeling of understanding and commiseration towards intellectuals.
Some reviews claim this book is anti women or anti marriage. I str
This is the fourth novel by Gissing I have read in the past few years (after New Grub Street, The Odd Women, and Born in Exile). I think that probably qualifies me as a superfan, as I don’t think anyone really reads him these days. At the moment of writing, The Whirpool has only seven text reviews o
I like George Gissing, but this isn't the place to start: read New Grub Street (the cut-throat world of late Victorian publishing) or The Odd Women (proto-feminism!) first.
In a Gissing novel you can expect: 90% of relationships between men and women are doomed, most women are weak-minded and/or self
Gissing's Whirlpool
George Gissing's novel "The Whirlpool" is a grim, pessimistic and thoughtful examination of materialistic, fast-paced urban life and of the difficulties of what today is frequently described as companionate marriage. Of all Gissing's novels, this book is probably the most modernis
This is the story of upper-middle class late-Victorian families/couples following the collapse of a bank. This is Gissing's last big novel written in 1897.
The real drama centres around Alma, a young girl of 20, who's father's shameful performance lead to the banks losses and his suicide. She has to