New Grub Street (Modern Library Classics)
 Hailed as Gissing's finest novel, New Grub Street portrays the intrigues and hardships of the publishing world in late Victorian England. In a materialistic, class-conscious society that rewards commercial savvy over artistic achievement, authors and ... [... more]
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New Grub Street (Penguin Classics)
And as to living up at the very top, why, there were distinct advantages--as so many people of moderate income are nowadays hastening to discover. The noise from the street was diminished at this height; no possible tramplers could establish themselves ... [... more]
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By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy ...
When the gentleman traveler George Gissing headed for Calabria in 1897 he wrote, "Every man has his intellectual desire; mine is to escape life as I know it and dream myself into that old world which was the imaginative delight of my boyhood." ... [... more]
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The Odd Women (Broadview Literary Texts)
George Gissing's The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of 'odd' or 'redundant' women, the cultural impact of 'the new woman,' and the ... [... more]
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By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy ...
"The names of Greece and Italy draw me as no others; they make me young again. The world of the Greeks and Romans is my land of romance." In 1897 the Victorian novelist George Gissing undertook a brief but eventful journey in southern Italy. ... [... more]
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New Grub Street (Oxford World's Classics)
New Grub Street (1891), George Gissing's most highly regarded novel, is the story of men and women forced to make their living by writing. Their daily lives and broken dreams, made and marred by the rigors of urban life and the demands of the fledgling ... [... more]
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Whirlpool (Everyman's Library)
After a stare and a frown, Harvey woke the echoes with boisterous laughter. It was long since any passage in writing had so irresistibly tickled his sense of humour. Well, he must let Abbott know of this. It might be as well, perhaps, if he called on Mrs ... [... more]
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The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)
A novel of social realism, The Odd Women reflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Unlike the "New Woman" novels of the era which challenged the idea that the unmarried woman was superfluous, Gissing ... [... more]
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Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
One thing to be learnt from every page of the biography is the strenuous spirit in which Dickens wrought. Whatever our judgment as to the result, his zeal and energy were those of the born artist. Passages numberless might be quoted from his letters, ... [... more]
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Our Friend The Charlatan
Naturally, Sir Spencer and Lady Ogram were not bidden to the wedding; in fact, they knew nothing about it until a couple of years after, when, on the birth to him of a son and heir, Quentin took his courage in both hands and went down to Rivenoak to make ... [... more]
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Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of ...
Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England addresses the late Victorian cultural crisis and aesthetic revolt in urban life, politics, literature and art, by special reference to the experience of the shocks of ... [... more]
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The Odd Women (Penguin Classics)
Two unmarried women suffering humiliation and poverty, their sister, the victim of oppression in a loveless marriage, and Rhonda Nunn, an ardent feminist trying to educate spinsters to lead independent lives are part of this novel which was quite ... [... more]
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