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    The Whirlpool (Unabridged)
    The Whirlpool (Unabridged)
    The Whirlpool (Unabridged)
    Audiobook19 hours

    The Whirlpool (Unabridged)

    Written by George Gissing

    Narrated by Robert Gladwell

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    About this audiobook

    Set against a background of Imperial Britain, this novel depicts life on the fringes of fashionable London in the 1880's. The author examines a `rational' marriage and the frustrations of an English `Madame Bovary'.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRNIB
    Release dateJan 1, 2000
    The Whirlpool (Unabridged)
    Author

    George Gissing

    George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Meagrely successful in his lifetime, he had by the 1940s been recognised as a literary genius, with George Orwell pronouncing that "England has produced few better novelists".

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