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.
By:
George Gissing Edited by:
Bernard Bergonzi Imprint: Penguin Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 31mm
Weight: 405g ISBN:9780140430325 ISBN 10: 0140430326 Pages: 560 Publication Date:24 June 1976 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews for New Grub Street
The most impressive of Gissing's books . . . England has produced very few better novelists. --George Orwell
