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The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 7

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The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 7( )
Author: Gissing, George R.
Editor: Mattheisen, Paul F.
Young, Arthur C.
Coustillas, Pierre
Series title:Collected Letters Gissing Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8214-1123-0
Publication Date:Sep 1995
Publisher:Ohio University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $80.00
Book Description:

Gissing's career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization.

Book Details
Pages:498
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.25 x 9.25 x 1.3 Inches
Book Weight:1.465 Pounds
Author Biography
Gissing, George (Author)
George Robert Gissing was born on November 22, 1857, and died on December 28, 1903. He was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Recent years have seen a strong revival of interest in Gissing, many of whose novels are now available in reprints. A bridge between late Victorianism and early modernism, Gissing's novels combine two essential themes of the period; the isolation and struggle of the artist and the economic bondage of the proletariat.

New Grub Street (1891) and his own indirect autobiography, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903), reveal the close connection in Gissing between fiction and autobiography. Workers in the Dawn (1880) and Demos: A Story of English Socialism (1892) dramatizes Gissing's conviction that economic and class divisions are central to human character and individual destiny.

Gissing died from emphysema at age 46 after catching a chill on an ill-advised winter walk. Verinilda was published incomplete in 1904. He is is buried in the English cemetery at Saint-Jean-de-Luz.

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