Essential Novelists - George Gissing: struggles of lower middle class

George Gissing · August Nemo

May 2020 · Essential Novelists Book 56 · Tacet Books

About this ebook

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofGeorge Gissingwhich areNew Grub Street and The Odd Wome. George Gissingwas an English writer noted for the unflinching realism of his novels about the lower middle class.His work is seriousthough not without a good deal of comic observationinteresting, scrupulously honest, and rather flat. Gissing was deeply critical, in an almost wholly negative way, of contemporary society. Novels selected for this book: - New Grub Street - The Odd Wome This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

About the author

George Robert Gissing(22 November 1857 28 December 1903) was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Gissing also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. He published his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, in 1880. His best known novels, which are published in modern editions, include The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891), and The Odd Women (1893).