New Grub Street

by Gissing, George; Taylor, D. J.

• ISBN13: 9780460877244
• ISBN10: 0460877240
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Everymans Library

Summary

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 mass communications industry, arepresented with vivid realism and unsentimental sympathy. Its telling juxtaposition of the writing careers of the clever and malicious Jaspar Milvain and the honest and struggling Edward Reardon quickly made New Grub Street into a classic work of late Victorian fiction.

Table of Contents

New Grub Street	p. i
Introduction	p. vii
Select Bibliography	p. xxiii
A Chronology of George Gissing	p. xxvi
a Man of His Day	p. 5
the House of Yule	p. 15
the House of Yule	p. 45
the House of Yule	p. 56
the House of Yule	p. 68
Marian's Home	p. 80
to the Winning Side	p. 102
Invita Minerva*	p. 120
the Friends of the Family	p. 133
Respite	p. 149
Respite	p. 155
Respite	p. 166
Respite	p. 189
Rejection	p. 206
the Parting	p. 221
the Past Revived	p. 248
the Past Revived	p. 260
the Legatees	p. 295
a Proposed Investment	p. 309
Married Woman's Property*	p. 353
the Lonely Man	p. 365
the Lonely Man	p. 383
the Lonely Man	p. 396
the Lonely Man	p. 425
the Lonely Man	p. 442
the Lonely Man	p. 455
a Check	p. 468
Fever and Rest	p. 505
Appendix a Note on New Grub Street and London	p. 516
Explanatory Notes	p. 522
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