A Few Press Opinions onThe UnclassedBy GEORGE GISSING12mo, Cloth, Illustrated, $1.25; Paper Covers, 50 Cents
A Few Press Opinions on
The Unclassed
By GEORGE GISSING
12mo, Cloth, Illustrated, $1.25; Paper Covers, 50 Cents
OutlookIt shows remarkable powers of observation and realistic reproduction of certain phases of life. It deals with the life of the “unclassed” very bluntly, and with unnecessary detail, but there is no intention to pervert morals.Boston PostThe story is full of strong and telling situations, a story in which the realism often impinges closely upon the ideal. In many places the book is absorbing in its interest.N. Y. AdvertiserIt is a story of the struggling ones, struggling against and for class distinction; struggling to keep from going down into the “lowest class;” struggling to reach the class where bread and butter are not the only living cries.Buffalo CommercialMr. Gissing has secured a place in the front rank of the best English novelists, and any story of which he is the author will be widely and eagerly read. “The Unclassed” is a thrilling, intensely dramatic story.Meadville StylusIda Starr is a child of ten years when the story opens. It closes with her marriage. We are permitted to observe her character in all the stages of its development from a childhood all love and gentleness, through a solitary and defenseless girlhood spent in a desperate struggle against the poverty that ends in starvation, through her temptation, her fall, and her redemption through love. There are, curiously enough, no traces of the influence of the naturalistic school in Mr. Gissing’s work. The entire story is planned and wrought out with the greatest imaginable delicacy.
Outlook
It shows remarkable powers of observation and realistic reproduction of certain phases of life. It deals with the life of the “unclassed” very bluntly, and with unnecessary detail, but there is no intention to pervert morals.
It shows remarkable powers of observation and realistic reproduction of certain phases of life. It deals with the life of the “unclassed” very bluntly, and with unnecessary detail, but there is no intention to pervert morals.
Boston Post
The story is full of strong and telling situations, a story in which the realism often impinges closely upon the ideal. In many places the book is absorbing in its interest.
The story is full of strong and telling situations, a story in which the realism often impinges closely upon the ideal. In many places the book is absorbing in its interest.
N. Y. Advertiser
It is a story of the struggling ones, struggling against and for class distinction; struggling to keep from going down into the “lowest class;” struggling to reach the class where bread and butter are not the only living cries.
It is a story of the struggling ones, struggling against and for class distinction; struggling to keep from going down into the “lowest class;” struggling to reach the class where bread and butter are not the only living cries.
Buffalo Commercial
Mr. Gissing has secured a place in the front rank of the best English novelists, and any story of which he is the author will be widely and eagerly read. “The Unclassed” is a thrilling, intensely dramatic story.
Mr. Gissing has secured a place in the front rank of the best English novelists, and any story of which he is the author will be widely and eagerly read. “The Unclassed” is a thrilling, intensely dramatic story.
Meadville Stylus
Ida Starr is a child of ten years when the story opens. It closes with her marriage. We are permitted to observe her character in all the stages of its development from a childhood all love and gentleness, through a solitary and defenseless girlhood spent in a desperate struggle against the poverty that ends in starvation, through her temptation, her fall, and her redemption through love. There are, curiously enough, no traces of the influence of the naturalistic school in Mr. Gissing’s work. The entire story is planned and wrought out with the greatest imaginable delicacy.
Ida Starr is a child of ten years when the story opens. It closes with her marriage. We are permitted to observe her character in all the stages of its development from a childhood all love and gentleness, through a solitary and defenseless girlhood spent in a desperate struggle against the poverty that ends in starvation, through her temptation, her fall, and her redemption through love. There are, curiously enough, no traces of the influence of the naturalistic school in Mr. Gissing’s work. The entire story is planned and wrought out with the greatest imaginable delicacy.