Wilfrid Athel, a brilliant Oxford undergraduate sent down with overwork, recovers at his family’s country house and falls in love with Emily Hood, the governess, daughter of a struggling clerk in a grim northern manufacturing town. Their love must survive class, money, a family’s doubts and the designs of her father’s employer.
One of Gissing’s most tender novels, for readers of Victorian realism and its portraits of poverty and pride. Download the free EPUB.