The Odd Women

George Gissing

Original title: The odd women

earliest edition we have, 1968 Norton, 1977 336 pages

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Five odd women—women without husbands—are the subject of this powerful novel, graphically set in Victorian London, by a writer whose perceptions about people, particularly women, would be remarkable in any age and are extraordinary in the 1890's. The story concerns the choices that five different women make or are forced to make, and what those choices imply about men's and women's place in society and relationship t...

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The Odd Women (Large Print Edition) paperback · 2007 · BiblioBazaar · 444 pages · 9781434656049
The Odd Women paperback · 2007 · Echo Library · 284 pages · 9781406810103
The Odd Women paperback · 2007 · BiblioBazaar · 392 pages · 9781434656032
The Odd Women paperback · 2007 · Book Jungle · 384 pages · 9781604245158
The Odd Women paperback · 2006 · Hard Press · 358 pages · 9781406927481
The Odd Women paperback · 2005 · Dodo Press · 424 pages · 9781406501872
The Odd Women paperback · 2004 · Kessinger Publishing · 404 pages · 9781419175893
The Odd Women hardcover · 2003 · North Books · 400 pages · 9781582872117
The Odd Women hardcover · 2003 · North Books · 500 pages · 9781582876955
The odd women edition · 2000 · Oxford University Press · 386 pages
The Odd Women (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) audiobook · 2000 · Audio Book Contractors, Inc. · 9781556856280
The odd women edition · 1998 · Broadview Press · 416 pages

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