New Grub Street

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George Gissing Katherine Mullin (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Leeds)

New Grub Street

George Gissing, Katherine Mullin (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Leeds)

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World Scientific
06 October 2016

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.'

Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of critical acclaim for his fourth novel, he has married the refined Amy Yule. But the brilliant future Amy expected has evaded her husband. The catastrophe of the Reardon's failing marriage is set among the rising and falling fortunes of novelists, journalists, and scholars who labour 'in the valley of the shadow of books'.

George Gissing's New Grub Street was written at breakneck speed in the autumn of 1890 and is considered his best novel. Intensely autobiographical, it reflects the literary and cultural crisis in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century.

By: George Gissing
Edited by: Katherine Mullin (Senior Lecturer in English Literature University of Leeds)
Imprint: World Scientific
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 366g
ISBN: 9780198729181
ISBN 10: 0198729189
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 06 October 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katherine Mullin lectures in English at the University of Leeds. She is the author of James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality and Modernity, forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2016.

Reviews for New Grub Street

This is the first new edition to appear in 20 years, with Mullin's nsightful introduction and explanatory notes shedding fresh light on this fascinating, autobiographical work. The Lady if you like your characters real and messy, your endings less than clear cut and your narratives laced with dark and knowing humour, then New Grub Street is well worth adding to your to be read list. Moira, Vulpes Libris