New Grub Street

Name: New Grub Street
Author: George Gissing

by George Gissing

Portrait of struggling London writers caught in literary competition and poverty

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George Gissing

Gissing was the most rigorous social realist of his generation, documenting the grinding poverty of the London poor and the frustrated aspirations of the educated lower middle class. New Grub Street is an unsurpassed portrait of literary life and economic desperation.

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