The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
George Gissing
Read by Kirsten Wever
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced by George Eliot, whose work he greatly admired. Another of his famous works, New Grub Street, entails a blunt critique of the working class life he knew by experience, especially during a number of the years he spent in the United States.
This collection of stories ranges from the humorous to the tragic. Throughout, Gissing pokes mild fun at his characters' human frailties: egotism, self-satisfaction, and pomposity, among others. - Summary by Kirsten Wever (9 hr 40 min)
Chapters
The House of Cobwebs | 53:34 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
A Capitalist | 35:17 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Christopherson | 40:16 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Humplebee | 39:58 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Scrupulous Father | 36:31 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
A Poor Gentleman | 34:35 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Miss Rodney's Leisure | 42:41 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
A Charming Family | 54:35 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
A Daughter of the Lodge | 32:03 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Riding Whip | 42:53 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Fate and the Apothecary | 25:18 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Topham's Chance | 26:17 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
A Lodger in Maze Pond | 47:33 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Salt of the Earth | 26:01 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Pig and Whistle | 42:46 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Reviews
Sudie
I've enjoyed every story in this volume The narrator was very good Don't. miss the pleasure of this stories
The Weeping Prophet
My first Gissing book and a pleasant surprise. And very well read too.
A LibriVox Listener
Wonderful light quip stories well read
Curious & off beat.
Michelle S
Sort of a Somerset Dickens. Thank you narrator, for bring Mr. George Gissing's pleasent stories to us.
Every story has a humane interest concerning the hardprest of Vi
Mary Ann Mays
🐓Mark🐓
Delightful reading and the stories are wonderful too.