Demos

Demos

George Gissing

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2021
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9789354759062
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A gripping portrait of urban life that still reverberates today. Demos lays bare how ambition, poverty and power collide in late nineteenth-century Britain, with a world of cobbled streets, crowded rooms and crowded minds.This is more than a realist social novel: a lucid, morally charged study of class struggle, demagogic rhetoric, and the push for political reform set against Victorian England’s bustling cities. The narrative speaks to today through echoes of street-level politics, intimate character portraits, and a keen eye for how public life shapes private hearts. Alpha Editions’ edition brings the book alive for modern readers while honouring its enduring craft and social insight, inviting casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike to reconsider a foundational work of British urban realism.Demos sits at the crossroads of Dickensian social panorama and George Eliot’s expansive moral inquiry, offering a humane, intelligent look at power, aspiration and the cost of progress. The voice is precise, human and accessible, rewarding careful reading and rewarding discussions in study groups or classrooms. Its historical significance rests in its frank engagement with urban reform, political rhetoric, and the lived experience of debt, work and opportunity-timeless threads in the fabric of modern British literature.Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector’s item and a cultural treasure.

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