Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0553
Barcode: 9781781984178
Release Date: 07/2022

GISSING, G.R.: Nether World (The) (Unabridged)

Dramatic, fast-moving and brutal, Gissing’s highly regarded early novel lays bare the reality of urban poverty in 1870s London. Old Michael Snowdon returns to the city with an inheritance that he determines should go towards helping the poor – but goodness and charity are not to play a part here. Everyone has an agenda, and scheming spreads through the story like a disease. Gissing’s own experience of London as an outsider in a vast city that both fascinated and appalled him gave him the tools and the drive to create a visceral sense of place. Life is unremittingly grim for just about everyone, from the weak and well-intentioned Jane to the coarse, cunning Clem Peckover and her feckless rival Pennyloaf Candy. The author offers no escape from the gloomy cycle, and there is something alarmingly timeless in the unvarnished portrait of human nature.

Tracklist

Gissing, George Robert - Author
Boulton, Nicholas (Reader)
1The Nether World00:10
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2Chapter 1: A Thrall of Thralls23:37
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3Chapter 2: A Friend in Request23:02
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4Chapter 3: A Superfluous Family27:32
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5Chapter 4: Clara and Jane21:34
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6Chapter 5: Jane is Visited27:02
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7Chapter 6: Glimpses of the Past25:28
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8Chapter 7: Mrs Byass's Lodgings22:55
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9Chapter 8: Pennyloaf Candy24:27
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10Chapter 9: Pathological27:16
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11Chapter 10: The Last Combat20:06
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12Chapter 11: A Disappointment17:54
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13Chapter 12: 'Io Saturnalia!'25:56
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14Chapter 13: The Bringer of Ill News15:59
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15Chapter 14: A Welcome Guest16:07
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16Chapter 15: Sunlight in Dreary Places26:06
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17Chapter 16: Dialogue and Comment17:39
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18Chapter 17: Clem Makes a Disclosure19:38
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19Chapter 18: The Joke is Completed21:26
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20Chapter 19: A Retreat25:20
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21Chapter 20: A Vision of Noble Things31:33
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22Chapter 21: Death the Reconciler27:29
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23Chapter 22: Watching from Ambush23:11
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24Chapter 23: On the Eve of Triumph22:30
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25Chapter 24: The Family History Progresses30:35
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26Chapter 25: A Double Consecration22:36
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27Chapter 26: Sidney's Struggle26:30
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28Chapter 27: Clara's Return17:49
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29Chapter 28: The Soup-Kitchen27:27
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30Chapter 29: Phantoms26:55
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31Chapter 30: On a Barren Shore27:00
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32Chapter 31: Woman and Actress27:33
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33Chapter 32: A Haven31:26
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34Chapter 33: A Fall from the Ideal19:03
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35Chapter 34: The Debt Repaid22:35
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36Chapter 35: The Treasury Unlocked16:02
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37Chapter 36: The Heir25:58
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38Chapter 37: Mad Jack's Dream29:15
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39Chapter 38: Joseph Transacts Much Business38:53
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40Chapter 39: Sidney40:07
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41Chapter 40: Jane31:08
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Total Playing Time: 16:34:49