Godwin Peak, a gifted student at Whitelaw College in the industrial town of Kingsmill, despises his humble origins and the class that looks down on him. Years later, longing for the refined world of the Warricombe family and their daughter Sidwell, he hides his free-thinking convictions and pretends to be preparing for holy orders.
One of Gissing’s sharpest novels of class, ambition and intellectual honesty, for readers of New Grub Street. Download the free EPUB.