New Grub Street

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. With vivid realism 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! as universal education! popular journalism! and mass communication began to leave their mark on thelife of intellectuals.Projecting a strong sense of the London in which his characters struggle! Gissing also illuminates `the valley of the shadow of books'! where the spirit of alienation that created modernism was already stirring.

Product details

• Authors: George Gissing
• Assisted by: John Goode (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780199538294
• ISBN: 978-0-19-953829-4
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; Oxford World's Classics
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs