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New Grub Street is my second Gissing book, and he's now become solidified as my favorite Victorian author hand's down.
The book involves three primary groups of characters who are engaged in some form of literary or journalistic occupation: the Reardons, the Yules and the Milvians. There are some important characters ancillary to these families, but the primary story involves the three families and how their occupational pursuits impact their personal lives. Gissing provides interesting commentar ...more
The book involves three primary groups of characters who are engaged in some form of literary or journalistic occupation: the Reardons, the Yules and the Milvians. There are some important characters ancillary to these families, but the primary story involves the three families and how their occupational pursuits impact their personal lives. Gissing provides interesting commentar ...more
The BEST book I have ever read. George Gissing deserves a much wider audience. If you want to read about real life in Victorian London, forget Dickens. Read Gissing. Right now.
3.5. Wow what a cynical ending! I'm not sure what to make of that, yet again Gissing writes plots like nothing I would expect from this time period.
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