The Nether World
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About This Book
This is a tale of intrigue, as rapacious schemers try to wrest a fortune out of a mysterious old man who has returned to their midst, and of thwarted love. There is no sentimentality. This is a world in which the strong exercise power against their own kind, scheming and struggling for survival, a world from which, Gissing bleakly maintains, there can be no escape.
Chapters (42)
- The Nether World
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I A THRALL OF THRALLS
- CHAPTER II A FRIEND IN REQUEST
- CHAPTER III A SUPERFLUOUS FAMILY
- CHAPTER IV CLARA AND JANE
- CHAPTER V JANE IS VISITED
- CHAPTER VI GLIMPSES OF THE PAST
- CHAPTER VII MRS. BYASS’S LODGINGS
- CHAPTER VIII PENNYLOAF CANDY
- CHAPTER IX PATHOLOGICAL
- CHAPTER X THE LAST COMBAT
- CHAPTER XI A DISAPPOINTMENT
- CHAPTER XII ‘IO SATURNALIA!’
- CHAPTER XIII THE BRINGER OF ILL NEWS
- CHAPTER XIV A WELCOME GUEST
- CHAPTER XV SUNLIGHT IN DREARY PLACES
- CHAPTER XVI DIALOGUE AND COMMENT
- CHAPTER XVII CLEM MAKES A DISCLOSURE
- CHAPTER XVIII THE JOKE IS COMPLETED
- CHAPTER XIX A RETREAT
- CHAPTER XX A VISION OF NOBLE THINGS
- CHAPTER XXI DEATH THE RECONCILER
- CHAPTER XXII WATCHING FROM AMBUSH
- CHAPTER XXIII ON THE EVE OF TRIUMPH
- CHAPTER XXIV THE FAMILY HISTORY PROGRESSES
- CHAPTER XXV A DOUBLE CONSECRATION
- CHAPTER XXVI SIDNEY’S STRUGGLE
- CHAPTER XXVII CLARA’S RETURN
- CHAPTER XXVIII THE SOUP-KITCHEN
- CHAPTER XXIX PHANTOMS
- CHAPTER XXX ON A BARREN SHORE
- CHAPTER XXXI WOMAN AND ACTRESS
- CHAPTER XXXII A HAVEN
- CHAPTER XXXIII A FALL FROM THE IDEAL
- CHAPTER XXXIV THE DEBT REPAID
- CHAPTER XXXV THE TREASURY UNLOCKED
- CHAPTER XXXVI THE HEIR
- CHAPTER XXXVII MAD JACK’S DREAM
- CHAPTER XXXVIII JOSEPH TRANSACTS MUCH BUSINESS
- CHAPTER XXXIX SIDNEY
- CHAPTER XL JANE
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