| New Grub Street by George Gissing, Fiction Contributor(s): Gissing, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 080959417X ISBN-13: 9780809594177 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $26.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: "The most impressive of Gissing's books . . . England has produced very few better novelists." -- George Orwell |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 970 |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 6" W x 9" (1.49 lbs) 464 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The story's two central characters are a sharply contrasted pair of writers: Edwin Reardon, a novelist of some talent but limited commercial prospects and a shy, cerebral man and Jasper Milvain, a young journalist, hard-working and capable of generosity, but cynical and only semi-scrupulous about writing and its purpose in the modern (i.e. late Victorian) world. "The most impressive of Gissing's books . . . England has produced very few better novelists." -- George Orwell |
Contributor Bio(s): Gissing, George: - "George Robert Gissing (1857 - 1903) was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Gissing also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. He published his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, in 1880. His best known novels, which are published in modern editions, include The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891), and The Odd Women (1893). According to his pupil Austin Harrison, from 1882 Gissing made a decent living by teaching and tales of his fight with poverty, including some of his own remembrances, were untrue. The issue of his supposed poverty may be explained by Gissing's attitude to teaching, which he felt robbed him of valuable writing time which he limited as much as possible and by poor management of his finances." |