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| Author:
| Gissing, George R. |
| Introduction by:
| Quinn, Anthony |
| ISBN: | 978-0-09-958922-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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| Imprint: | Arrow |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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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....
More 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'.
'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