In the Year of JubileeQueen Victoria's fervently celebrated Jubilee in 1887--when the aging monarch was the seemingly immortal symbol of England's greatness and Empire-spurred George Gissing to write this trenchant and satirical novel of late Victorian society. |
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Page xii
... marriage and a precar- ious 10 years ' livelihood as a writer behind him , married Edith Underwood , a young woman well below his own level , both intellectually and socially , whom he had in fact picked up in the street — or possibly ...
... marriage and a precar- ious 10 years ' livelihood as a writer behind him , married Edith Underwood , a young woman well below his own level , both intellectually and socially , whom he had in fact picked up in the street — or possibly ...
Page xvi
... marriage to her father as a fait accompli , only to find that he is dead and that the provisions of his Will make it ... married her so precipitantly , for what could this do but arouse suspicion and derision ? It would have been much ...
... marriage to her father as a fait accompli , only to find that he is dead and that the provisions of his Will make it ... married her so precipitantly , for what could this do but arouse suspicion and derision ? It would have been much ...
Page xvii
... marriage ought to be like anyway . Tarrant states the case for it early in the book : ' We ought to regard ourselves as married people liv- ing under exceptionally favourable circumstances . One has to bear in mind the brutal fact that ...
... marriage ought to be like anyway . Tarrant states the case for it early in the book : ' We ought to regard ourselves as married people liv- ing under exceptionally favourable circumstances . One has to bear in mind the brutal fact that ...
Page xviii
... married life ever can be . ' It is a point of view which has a certain amount to recom- mend it , but neither Lionel ... marriage ' . It is clear that , at this point , the book has become impaled upon a Gissing mania , and the failure ...
... married life ever can be . ' It is a point of view which has a certain amount to recom- mend it , but neither Lionel ... marriage ' . It is clear that , at this point , the book has become impaled upon a Gissing mania , and the failure ...
Page xix
... marriage in which ten- derness and sympathy are replaced by enmity and open vio- lence . This memorable section of the book does not in fact contribute significantly to the plot : its purpose in the novel seems purely illustrative — and ...
... marriage in which ten- derness and sympathy are replaced by enmity and open vio- lence . This memorable section of the book does not in fact contribute significantly to the plot : its purpose in the novel seems purely illustrative — and ...
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Page 449 - Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles, called Staple Inn. It is one of those nooks, the turning into which out of the clashing street, imparts to the relieved pedestrian the sensation of having put cotton in his ears, and velvet soles on his boots. 17 Vol.13 It is one of those nooks where a few smoky sparrows twitter in smoky trees, as though they called to one another,
Page 60 - Blue ; " somebody's "Soap;" somebody's "High-class Jams;" and behold, inserted between the Soap and the Jam — " God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoso believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Page 309 - High and low, on every available yard of wall, advertisements clamoured to the" eye : theatres, journals, soaps, medicines, concerts, furniture, wines, prayer-meetings — all the produce and refuse of civilisation announced in staring letters, in daubed effigies, base, paltry, grotesque. A battle-ground of advertisements, fitly chosen amid subterranean din and reek ; a symbol to the gaze of that relentless warfare which ceases not night and day, in the world above.
Page 218 - London, devourer of rural limits, of a sudden made hideous encroachment upon the old estate, now held by a speculative builder ; of many streets to be constructed, three or four had already come into being, and others were mapped out, in mud and inchoate masonry, athwart the ravaged field. Great elms, the pride of generations passed away, fell before the speculative axe, or were left standing in mournful isolation to please a speculative architect ; bits of wayside hedge still shivered in fog and...
Page 104 - The strong west wind lashed her cheeks to a glowing colour ; excitement added brilliancy to her eyes. As soon as she had recovered from the first impression, this spectacle of a world's wonder served only to exhilarate her ; she was not awed by what she looked upon. In her conceit of selfimportance, she stood there, above the battling millions of men, proof against mystery and dread, untouched by the voices of the past, and in the present seeing only common things, though from an odd point of view....
Page 447 - At night all the great streets were packed from side to side with a clearly divided double current of people, all vehicles being forbidden. You walked at the rate of a funeral horse from top of Bond Street to the Bank, by way of Pall Mall, Strand, etc. Such a concourse of people I never saw. The effect of illuminated London from the top of our house here was strange. Of course, I didn't try to see the daylight proceedings.
Page 447 - in every object there is inexhaustible meaning ; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
Page xiii - establishment for young ladies " up to the close of her seventeenth year : the other two had pursued culture at a still more pretentious institute until they were eighteen. All could "play the piano " ; all declared — and believed — that they " knew French." Heatrice had "done" Political Economy; Fanny had "been through " Inorganic Chemistry and Botany.