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Books with title Erak's Ransom

  • Eve's Ransom

    George Gissing

    Hardcover (BiblioLife, Aug. 18, 2008)
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  • Eve's Ransom

    George Gissing

    MP3 CD (Babblebooks, April 1, 2006)
    The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 5.8 hours (slow), 5.3 hours (medium), 4.9 hours (fast). Serial first published in Illustrated London News. After an unexpected windfall, a man goes in quest of a woman he knows only from a picture in his landlady's photo-album.
  • Eve's Ransom

    George Gissing

    Hardcover (Kessinger Publishing, LLC, Sept. 10, 2010)
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
  • Eve's Ransom

    George Gissing

    Hardcover (D. Appleton & Company, Jan. 1, 1897)
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  • Eve's Ransom

    George Gissing

    Hardcover (IndyPublish, May 12, 2008)
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  • Eve's Ransom

    George Gissing

    eBook (Good Press, Nov. 29, 2019)
    "Eve's Ransom" by George Gissing. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
  • Eve's Ransom

    George Gissing

    eBook (, Sept. 2, 2020)
    Eve's Ransom by George Gissing
  • Eve's Ransom

    George Gissing

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 14, 2014)
    On the station platform at Dudley Port, in the dusk of a February afternoon, half-a-dozen people waited for the train to Birmingham. A south-west wind had loaded the air with moisture, which dripped at moments, thinly and sluggishly, from a featureless sky. The lamps, just lighted, cast upon wet wood and metal a pale yellow shimmer; voices sounded with peculiar clearness; so did the rumble of a porter's barrow laden with luggage. From a foundry hard by came the muffled, rhythmic thunder of mighty blows; this and the long note of an engine-whistle wailing far off seemed to intensify the stillness of the air as gloomy day passed into gloomier night. In clear daylight the high, uncovered platform would have offered an outlook over the surrounding country, but at this hour no horizon was discernible. Buildings near at hand, rude masses of grimy brick, stood out against a grey confused background; among them rose a turret which vomited crimson flame. This fierce, infernal glare seemed to lack the irradiating quality of earthly fires; with hard, though fluctuating outline, it leapt towards the kindred night, and diffused a blotchy darkness. In the opposite direction, over towards Dudley Town, appeared spots of lurid glow. But on the scarred and barren plain which extends to Birmingham there had settled so thick an obscurity, vapours from above blending with earthly reek, that all tile beacons of fiery toil were wrapped and hidden. Of the waiting travellers, two kept apart from the rest, pacing this way and that, but independently of each other. They were men of dissimilar appearance; the one comfortably and expensively dressed, his age about fifty, his visage bearing the stamp of commerce; the other, younger by more than twenty years, habited in a way which made it; difficult to as certain his social standing, and looking about him with eyes suggestive of anything but prudence or content. Now and then they exchanged a glance: he of the high hat and caped ulster betrayed an interest in the younger man, who, in his turn, took occasion to observe the other from a distance, with show of dubious recognition.
  • Eve's Ransom

    George Gissing

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Jan. 19, 2015)
    Maurice Hilliard is a mechanical draughtsman producing technical drawings on an annual income of £100. He longs to be free from the monotony of his life and work, and is led by his feelings of hopelessness into drinking alcohol. While travelling by train one day, he meets Mr Dengate, a former debtor to his deceased father. As Dengate was bankrupt at the point of Hilliard's father's death, the debt was not repaid, but as they meet on the train, Hilliard shames Dengate into repaying the debt of £436. Hilliard then commits to the plan of living without working, as a "free" human being, for as long as the money lasts.
  • Eve's Ransom

    George Gissing

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Jan. 22, 2018)
    Eve's Ransom
  • Eve's Ransom

    George Gissing

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Jan. 10, 2016)
    George Gissing was a British novelist, most famous for his novels The Nether World, New Grub Street, and The Odd Women. He is said to have been primarily influenced by Emile Zola.
  • Erak's Ransom: Book 7

    John Flanagan Ph.

    Hardcover (Philomel Books, Jan. 5, 2010)
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