George Gissing 
Isabel Clarendon (Vol. 1&2) 
Complete Edition

Isabel Clarendon is a young woman who gets married and enjoys all the traits that life offers, but it doesn’t lasts. Her husband gets ill and goes through three years of agony before he dies. Isabel, whose mother also died, then meets Bernard Kingcote, lonely and eccentric man who is left to make a way in the world without the bourgeois advantage of family money. Unaware of that they have already met very long time ago, the two become friends and their relationship slowly develops to something more. However, with Isabel’s relived tragedy and Kingcote’s eccentric ways, their relationship encounters troubles.

A propos de l’auteur

George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist, who worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. He wrote under strong influence of Dickens. His best-known novels include The Nether World, New Grub Street and The Odd Women.