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Will Warburton
George Gissing
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Mrs. Cross saw nothing in this but profanity. She turned the attack on Bertha, who, by her soft way of speaking, simply encouraged the servants, she declared, in negligence and insolence.
"Look at it in this way, mother," replied the girl, as soon as she was suffered to speak. "To be badly served is bad enough, in itself; why make it worse by ceaseless talking about it, so leaving ourselves not a moment of peace and quiet? I'm sure I'd rather put the salt on the table myself at every meal, and think no more about it, than worry, worry, worry over the missing salt-cellars from one meal to the next. Don't you feel, dear mother, that it's shocking waste of life?"
"What nonsense you talk, child! Ar. . . Read More
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It seems appropriate that Gissing's swansong should end on a note of courage and hope, with only twinges of the bleak despair we see in some of his earlier novels. ‘Will Warburton’ is the parable of Job transferred to a turn-of-the-century society.
Gissing's strengths as a novelist are threefold: goo
What a wonderful book. Gissing is a hugely important Victorian writer, a social realist who confronts the deep inequalities of the times he lives in with all the moral dilemmas that involves. The conflict in male and female gender roles and relationships, the significance of one's profession to soci
Gissing's final novel presents a happier resolution than most of his gloomy earlier works. The romance of real life appears to reside less in the prospect of the companionable marriage than in Will's overcoming of his internalised social prejudice against counter jumpers. His wife-to-be is perhaps o
Gissing's Romance Of Real Life
George Gissing's (1857 - 1903) last completed novel "Will Warburton: a Romance of Real Life" was published posthumously in 1904. Frequently overlooked or downplayed among his works, "Will Warburton" shows marked shifts for Gissing. Moving from his characteristic pessimi