New Grub Street / George Gissing.

New edition / edited by Katherine Mullin.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

xxxiv, 487 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

'New Grub Street' (1891), generally regarded as Gissing's finest novel, is the story of the daily lives and broken dreams of men and women forced to earn a living by the pen. It tells of a group of novelists, journalists, and scholars caught in the literary and cultural crisis that hit Britain in the closing years of the 19th century.

9780198729181 (pbk)

FICTION

English

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