ENGLISH

New Grub Street

By George Gissing

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
Year
1976
ISBN
0140430326, 9780140430325
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
59 MB (61547352 bytes)
Series
The Penguin English Library
Pages
560\562
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2018-09-02 17:50:55

Description

In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in Grub Street including Jasper Milvain, an ambitious journalist, and Alfred Yule, an embittered critic. Here Gissing brings to life the bitter battles (fought out in obscure garrets or in the Reading Room of the British Museum) between integrity and the dictates of the market place, the miseries of genteel poverty and the damage that failure and hardship do to human personality and relationships.

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