Les Bas-fonds

Les Bas-fonds Séries

Cette série plonge les lecteurs dans un royaume sombre et surnaturel où le surnaturel se heurte à une réalité brute. Suivez les destins entrelacés de personnages luttant pour leur survie dans un paysage semé d'intrigues, de dangers et de dilemmes moraux profonds. Les récits mêlent des éléments d'horreur, de dark fantasy et de drame psychologique, offrant une exploration captivante de l'esprit humain face à l'inconnu. C'est une descente dans le désespoir, mais qui laisse entrevoir la possibilité de rédemption.

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The Nether World

George Gissing

404pages
15 heures de lecture

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The Nether World (1889) is generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels. A fast moving story of highly dramatic, sometimes violent scenes, it depicts life amongst the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers of Clerkenwell in the 1870s. But this is not just a novel of documentary realism. It is one man's mordant vision - shaped by bitter personal experience of poverty - of the quality of life endured by a variety of characters in the nether world. With Zolaesque intensity and relentlessness, Gissing lays bare the economic forces which determine the aspirations and expectations of those born to a life of labour. 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.