New Grub Street (English Library)

George Gissing, Bernard Bergonzi

ISBN 10: 0140430326 / ISBN 13: 9780140430325

Published by Penguin Classics 24/06/1976, 1976

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Grub Street (English Library)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics 24/06/1976
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140430326
• ISBN 13: 9780140430325
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Francine Prose’s most recent book is The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired. A contributing editor at Harper’s, she is the author of ten books of fiction, including Blue Angel, a 2000 National Book Award finalist.