New Grub Street (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Gissing, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140430326 ISBN 13: 9780140430325

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1976

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 this title

Review:

"The most impressive of Gissing's books . . . England has produced very few better novelists." --George Orwell

Book Description:

George Gissing's best-known novel shows us the literary underbelly of Victorian England, and the writers striving to forge their reputations in 'the street of no shame'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0140430326
• ISBN 13: 9780140430325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: Bergonzi Bernard