New Grub Street

Zusatztext if you like your characters real and messy, your endings less than clear cut and your narratives laced with dark and knowing humour, then New Grub Street is well worth adding to your to be read list. Informationen zum Autor Katherine Mullin lectures in English at the University of Leeds. She is the author of James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality and Modernity, forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2016. Klappentext New Grub Street (1891), generally regarded as Gissing's finest novel, is the story of the daily lives and broken dreams of men and women forced to earn a living by the pen. It tells of a group of novelists, journalists, and scholars caught in the literary and cultural crisis that hit Britain in the closing years of the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung New Grub Street (1891), generally regarded as Gissing's finest novel, is the story of the daily lives and broken dreams of men and women forced to earn a living by the pen. It tells of a group of novelists, journalists, and scholars caught in the literary and cultural crisis that hit Britain in the closing years of the nineteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: George Gissing, Gissing George
• Assisted by: Katherine Mullin (Editor), Katherine (Senior Lecturer in English Literature Mullin (Editor), Mullin Katherine (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9780198729181
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872918-1
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics (Paper
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary