Signed up for some more late Victorian gloom with this. This book is not about feminists, struggling writers or the working class this time, but the idle rich. At least they are to start off with. Harvey Rolfe marries a beautiful and charming woman about 13 years younger than himself. I don't know, I just have this intuition that the marriage will not continue to be a happy and successful one.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
Haven't finished it yet, but within the last 100 pages. I wonder whether this is the sort of book where Gissing gets his reputation as a misogynist. The majority, although not all, of the female characters are somewhat vapid. The book this most reminded me of was Anne Tyler's An Amateur Marriage. It is the same sort of thing except set 100 years earlier in a different country.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
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