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Lädt ... Eve's Ransomvon George Gissing
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. George Gissing's novel, "Eve's Ransom" is a character study of a man and a woman and their frailties. It is a good story, if a tad predictable. It is only predictable, however, because Gissing does such a good job of telling the story, and the characters are timeless, unfortunately. There is a touch of nobility along with selfishness, and also a bit of the fatigue of struggling financially through life and the toll that it takes. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML: One of the foremost fiction writers in the genre of Victorian realism, George Gissing wrote several of the most notable novels of the era, including New Grub Street and Born in Exile. The short novel Eve's Ransom is a classic story of misbegotten love wherein an impressionable young man falls forâ??and attempts desperately to win overâ??a woman who appears to be all wrong for him Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Gissing, a Victorian author, has drawn a realistic and challenging portrait of a man who is in love with a woman who cannot force herself to love him, feeling gratitude but nothing deeper. Although this is a short book, his descriptions of dreary, dingy, industrial age London, Paris, and Birmingham is instructive. He has captured the reality and result of grinding poverty on the soul and the limited prospects available to the lower class of the time. Only Maurice and Eve are completed characters and neither is totally likeable, both grasping and desperate in their own ways. I was disappointed in the ending of the book. The tone changed very drastically and the characters seemed so changed without the reader seeing that change that the conclusion just felt off. It almost seemed as if at the last minute Gissing felt as if his intended ending was too depressing to foist on the serial reading public and so whitewashed things. Other than that caveat though, I enjoyed this and would recommend it to other readers who enjoy the realism so often found in Victorian fiction. ( )