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The Nether World

by George Gissing

Level C1 · AdvancedClassics40 chapters
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CEFR level
C1
Length
40 chapters
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About this book

About this book

In the shadowed streets of London, an aged man searches for a mysterious Snowdon near the grim Middlesex House of Detention, while a young girl named Jane Snowdon listens in, setting the stage for a tale of struggle, poverty, and hidden pasts.

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Contents

40 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02CHAPTER II A FRIEND IN REQUEST
03CHAPTER III A SUPERFLUOUS FAMILY
04CHAPTER IV CLARA AND JANE
05CHAPTER V JANE IS VISITED
06CHAPTER VI GLIMPSES OF THE PAST
07CHAPTER VII MRS. BYASS’S LODGINGS
08CHAPTER VIII PENNYLOAF CANDY
09CHAPTER IX PATHOLOGICAL
10CHAPTER X THE LAST COMBAT
11CHAPTER XI A DISAPPOINTMENT
12CHAPTER XII ‘IO SATURNALIA!’

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