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Plot summary. The action covers a period of roughly four months—from August to November—in a year in the 1890s. Liza Kemp is an 18-year-old factory worker and the youngest of a large family, now living alone with her aging mother.
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- W. Somerset Maugham
- English
- 1897
- Liza of Lambeth
Liza of Lambeth. W. Somerset Maugham. 3.41. 2,196 ratings229 reviews. W. Somerset Maugham’s first novel is about the gloomy, poverty-stricken world of South London in the 1890s and how it affects one young girl who tries to escape from it. Genres Classics Fiction Romance 19th Century British Literature Literature Historical Fiction. ...more.
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- 1897
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Paperback
12 de ago. de 2005 · After a while the men began to itch for a turn, and two of them, taking hold of one another in the most approved fashion, waltzed round the circle with the gravity of judges. All at once there was a cry: 'There's Liza!'. And several members of the group turned and called out: 'Oo, look at Liza!'.
Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim...
18 de set. de 2011 · A naturalistic fiction about a young factory worker who has a secret affair with a married man in a London slum. The novel depicts the social and moral problems of the working class, the Cockney dialect, and the entertainment venues of the late Victorian era.
Set in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, Liza of Lambeth follows a young woman in her life as a factory worker and caretaker for her ailing mother. Although she is only 18,...
