The Whirlpool
By: George Gissing ; new introduction by Gillian Tindall.
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780701219109
First sentence: HARVEY ROLFE was old enough to dine with deliberation, young and healthy enough to sauce with appetite the dishes he thoughtfully selected.
Description: The publisher's 'blurb' describes this as "perhaps Gissing's most ambitious novel", and it is probably one of his best. It is set in the middle-class world of the late Victorian era. The central character, Alma Rolfe, is torn between her domestic life and her career as a violinist in London.
Notes: This Hogarth Press edition is offset from the original Lawrence & Bullen edition of 1897.