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New Grub Street

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099589228

  • Length: 672  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 484g

  • RRP: £10.99

New Grub Street

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'.

‘As a study in the pathology of the literary life it is unequalled, and still surprisingly relevant’ David Lodge, Independent


Grub Street - where would-be writers aim high, publishers plumb the depths and literature is a trade, never a calling. In a literary world disfigured by greed and explotation, two very different writers rise and fall: Edward Reardon, a novelist whose high standards prevent him from pandering to the common taste, and Jasper Milvain, who possesses no such scruples. Gissing's dark and darkly funny novel presents a little-seen but richly absorbing slice of nineteeth-century society.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANTHONY QUINN

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099589228

  • Length: 672  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 484g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • New Grub Street...remains to this day the most devastating fictive portrayal of the conflict between materialism and idealism in the literary and journalistic worlds

    Washington Post

  • It is George Gissing's triumph, in New Grub Street to have written a novel about writing for a living which is as graphic, as realistic and as dispiriting in its way as anything written by Emile Zola on the plight of coalminers

    Sunday Times

  • New Grub Street is not a very cheerful book, but as a study in the pathology of the literary life it is unequalled, and still surprisingly relevant

    David Lodge, Independent

  • At his best Gissing is a very subtle psychologist, and his best scenes emerge out of a painstaking unravelling of human motivation... His work has a kind of integrity, a sort of emotional jaggedness, sufficient to set it apart from most of the comfortable productions of the late-Victorian reading-room

    DJ Taylor, Independent

  • New Grub Street has an ominously up-to-date air

    Independent

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George Gissing

George Gissing (1857-1903) wrote a series of startling novels principally set in London, including New Grub Street, The Whirlpool, The Nether World and The Odd Women. He lived a chaotic, often poverty-striken life from which he frequently drew for his fiction. He is generally viewed as the greatest English realist novelist. He was a friend and contemporary of Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells and Henry James.

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