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Demos . By: George Gissing ( NOVEL )

Demos . By: George Gissing ( NOVEL )

Gissing, George

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ISBN10: 1975972597
ISBN13: 9781975972592
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 1 2017
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.68 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Demos: A Story of English Socialism is a novel by the English author George Gissing. It was written between late 1885 and March 1886 and first published in April 1886 by Smith, Elder & Co.It tells the story of a young, lower-class, Radical working-man, Richard Mutimer, who unexpectedly inherits a large fortune. He becomes the leader of a socialist movement and decides to use his inheritance to set up a cooperative factory. However, his new wealth and power serve to highlight the defects of character that he brings from his working-class origin and he begins to treat his workers harshly, as well as abandoning the girl of his own station to whom he had been engaged.

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