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by George Gissing (Author) "AS the Milvains sat down to breakfast the clock of Wattle-borough parish church struck eight; it was two miles away, but the strokes were borne..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (29 Sep 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140430326
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140430325
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.4 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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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 acquaintances in Grub Street including Jasper Milvain, an ambitious journalist, and Alfred Yule, an embittered critic. Here Gissing brings to life the bitter battles (fought out in obscure garrets or in the Reading Room of the British Museum) between integrity and the dictates of the market place, the miseries of genteel poverty and the damage that failure and hardship do to human personality and relationships.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A unsurpassed commentary on the Victorian literary scene, 13 April 1999
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If the writer's life or the literary life or the everyday life of late Victorian England is your thing then New Grub Street is the book for you. It is a timeless classic, which has become a cult read for many beloved of Gissing. Full of characters who live and who you will come to love. Biffen and Reardon, they live on in the memory, loveable and hopeless, incorrigible, and yet faithful to their broken dreams and ideals. And despite its pessimism, this is a book full of optimism and the humanity that enriches one's life. I can only say that this is a book to be read countless times, for more than any writer I've read, Gissing has so much to give and this goes for all of his books. Read this and then go on to the others and you will know what I mean. George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, DH Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and many other of our writers read him and admired him. Some other books by Gissing: Born in Exile, Demos, The Odd Women, In the Year of Jubilee, The Whirlpool, The Nether World, etc.,
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4.0 out of 5 stars Compelling, if not uplifting..., 25 Jul 2006
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This is an engaging, if ultimately rather pessimistic novel: the bleak irony which underpins New Grub Street is that those men who have sought to escape the mundane necessity of remunerative employment find themselves, through committing themselves to a career as a man of letters, in thrall to the harsh economic realities of professional writing in late Victorian England. These realities have never been described with a more harrowing authenticity than in New Grub Street - Gissing is writing from a series of personal experiences which left him tottering on the point of penury and starvation. His characterisation is memorable and his prose is lucid and engaging. Gissing will almost certainly never be considered amongst the elite of Victorian England's authors - he lacks Dickens' vitality, for instance, or Hardy's understanding of human potential - but New Grub Street is undoubtedly a significant and thought-provoking novel.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A high point in nineteenth century literature, 5 Aug 2006
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George Gissing produced this vision of a self-enclosed social order in as compelling a style as Eliot's Middlemarch. However, where Middlemarch focused on one town, Gissing takes as his object one economic sector - professional writing in the 1880s - and shows up its modus operandi, portrays its types, reveals to us the inner dynamics of profit and power driving the system, its various feuds along with the changing fortunes of the women and men who sought to earn a living by the pen. More than social history, its character studies live and breathe: Gissing imbibes his young married couples, patriarchs and struggling misits with a tragic power equal to their counterparts in George Eliot's work. Yes, there is excess dialogue, a flaw generally noted in Gissing, mostly in the final fifty or so pages. However this should be overlooked in finally judging the book because, to get down to brass tacks, we're dealing with a word used far too often but by no means out of place here: *masterpiece*.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspired and incredibly relevant
In `New Grub Street' George Gissing delves into the nature of the literary world of late Nineteenth Century London. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Writing, money and alienation
New Grub Street is, of course, a novel about writing and writers. It is also, in common with pretty much every other 19th century novel, about money or, to be more precise, the... Read more
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Talk about a story and set of characters to darken your day. All the characters with integrity fail/die/disappear and all the ones who are not nice, succeed. Read more
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