New Grub Street (Oxford World's Classics) -

George Gissing

Oxford University Press

2016

528 páginas

17h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780198729181

Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon has achieved a precarious carrer as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of critical acclaim for his fourth novel, he has married the refined Amy Yule. But the brilliant future Amy expected has evaded her husband. The catastrophe of the Reardon's failing marriage is set alongside the rising and falling fortunes of novelists, journalists, and scholars who labour 'in the valley of the shadow of books'.

"New Grub Street" was written at breakneck speed in the autumn of 1890 and is considered Gissing's best novel. Intensily yet ironically autobiographical, it reflects the literary and cultural crisis in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Retrata as intrigas e os efeitos paralisantes da pobreza no mundo literário. New Grub Street contrasta a carreira de Edwin Reardon, um autor talentoso, mas empobrecido, de mérito literário comprovado, com a de Jasper Milvain, um crítico e escritor de sucesso material. O livro sugere que a autopropaganda proporciona ao escritor um caminho mais seguro para o sucesso do que o talento.