New Grub Street

Historical

Author: George Gissing

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANTHONY QUINN,,Grub Street – where would-be writers aim high, publishers plumb the depths and literature is a trade, never a calling. In a literary world disfigured by greed and explotation, two very different writers rise and fall: Edward Reardon, a novelist whose high standards prevent him from pandering to the common taste, and Jasper Milvain, who….Read More

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