The Whirlpool (Everyman Paperback Classics)
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Harvey Rolfe's modest inheritance allows him to live quietly on the edge of London's social and commercial circuits; but soon bankruptcy and suicide bring the tumult, and Alma Frothingham, to his door. Their desire for a simple life does not remain mutual for long. Self-deception gradually poisons their marriage; Alma's dream of success as a professional violinist draws her into a confusion of blackmail and powerful sexual jealousy, as Harvey falls into the whirlpool of decadence and materiality he strove to avoid.
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After a stare and a frown, Harvey woke the echoes with boisterous laughter. It was long since any passage in writing had so irresistibly tickled his sense of humour. Well, he must let Abbott know of this. It might be as well, perhaps, if he called on Mrs Abbott tomorrow, to remove any doubt that might remain in her mind. The fellow Wager being an old acquaintance of his, he could not get rid of a sense of far-off responsibility in this matter; though, happily, Wager's meeting with Mrs Abbott's cousin, which led to marriage and misery, came about quite independently of him.
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The Whirlpool (Everyman Paperback Classics)
The Whirlpool (Everyman Paperback Classics),George Gissing,William Greenslade,Everyman Paperback Classics,046087781X,Classics,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,19th century fiction,English,Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century
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