Gissing George - The Odd Women - Paperback Conscious Barcode: 880882569426

Barcode: 880882569426

Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and pagans to gluttons criminals and seducers - who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante's life

This item's title is: All That You Can’T Leave Behind - 20Th Anniversary (11LP Super Deluxe Box Set)

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Gissing George - The Odd Women - Paperback Conscious Barcode: 880882569426Binding: Paperback Description: `there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours So many odd women no making a pair with them. The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the ` New Woman novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But in The Odd Women (1893) Gissing satirizes the prevailing literary image of the ` New Woman and makes the point that unmarried women were generally viewed less as noble and romantic