New Grub Street - Brossura

Gissing, George

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140430326 ISBN 13: 9780140430325

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 1976

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

“The most impressive of Gissing’s books . . . England has produced very few better novelists.” —George Orwell

L'autore:

Francine Prose’s most recent book is The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired. A contributing editor at Harper’s, she is the author of ten books of fiction, including Blue Angel, a 2000 National Book Award finalist.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0140430326
• ISBN 13: 9780140430325
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 560