New Grub Street (Oxford World's Classics)

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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