Piers Otway, a slim, absent-minded young man of twenty-one, walks out of Waterloo Station one May morning in 1886 and soon falls in love with Irene Derwent, a woman beyond his reach. Over the following years he works and travels, watches the jingoism of the 1890s with dismay and holds to his love.
One of Gissing’s most hopeful novels, a love story and an argument against war. Download the free EPUB.