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In the Year of Jubilee

George Gissing

Book Overview: 

The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Jubilee depicts the harsh and disreputable conditions of lower-middle class life at the end of the 19th century.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .od cowed before her, limp and tremulous.

'There, light the gas. Why couldn't you come into the drawing-room, like other people do?'

'Who is there?' asked the young man, when he had obeyed her.

'Go and see for yourself.'

'Don't be angry, Fanny.' He followed her, like a dog, as she walked round the table to look at herself in the mirror over the fireplace. 'It was only because I'm so fond of you.'

'Oh, what a silly you are!' she laughed, seating herself on the arm of an easy-chair. 'Go ahead! What's the latest?'

'Well, for one thing, I've had a very clear understanding with the gov'nor about my independence. I showed him that I meant having my own way, and he might bully as much as he liked.'

It was not thus that Horace would naturally have spoken, not thus that he thought of his father. Fanny had subdued him to her own level, poisoned him with the desires excited by her presence. And he knew his . . . Read More

Community Reviews

There was one plot point I saw from a mile away, but other than that, another entertaining novel by George Gissing.

‘Jubilee,’ in addition to its fine portraits of memorable men and women, deals with three strands of plot which may be separated into the social (class), the intellectual (education) and gender (feminism, equality). It is one of Gissing's most bitter criticisms of progress without the backbone of va

Later Victorian novels can be so refreshingly bleak. Set in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, and in several years that follow, The Year of the Jubilee follows an interconnected set of middle class characters in London. Despite the urban setting, it’s small world reminiscent of Jane

Having enjoyed the writing of Gissing in the past I was bowled over to see a Gissing classic I had not already read! What a find. Each page captures the interest of the reader immediately. The characters are so well written and the first few pages are an amazing approach to scene construction. The l

Now there's a twist: lots of books about couples living together without getting married, but here's one about a couple who get married without living together!

A really good early work. Gissing presents his story in an England where the middle class is indifferent to the monarch's anniversary, the working class use it merely as an excuse to get drunk and the police stewarding of the crowds is an opportunity for gratuitous violence. As England stands on the

Miss Lord Of Camberwell

"Miss Lord of Camberwel" was Gissing's original title for this 1894 novel until his publisher persuaded him to use "In the Year of Jubilee" instead. George Gissing (1857 -- 1903) was a late Victorian novelist who remains relatively unknown. Among other things, his book are dis

Progressive women, first advertising man in Literature, great characterizations and interesting plots. A bit hard to read in the old fashion way it's written but worth it.

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