
New Grub Street
''If only I had the skill, I would produce novels out-trashing the trashiest that ever sold fifty thousand copies''
In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London''s literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acqua...
''If only I had the skill, I would produce novels out-trashing the trashiest that ever sold fifty thousand copies''
In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London''s literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acqua...