Gissing: 139 books

‘Schrijven _ was dat niet de vreugde en het voorrecht van iemand die een dringende boodschap voor de wereld had?’ verzucht een van de personages in New Grub Street, de opzienbarende roman van George Gissing. Een boek uit 1891, maar angstaanjagend actueel. Een onthutsende verkenning van de literatuur...

George Robert Gissing 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).

George Robert Gissing 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) (font:Wikipedia)

George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English author who also worked as a teacher.  Gissing wrote over 20 novels including New Grub Street, The Nether World, and The Odd Women.  This edition of The Odd Women includes a table of contents.

The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with hack literature; by Gissing's time, Grub Street itself no longer existed, though hack-writing certainly did. Its two central...

Will Warburton was George Gissing's last novel. It was published in 1905, three years after Gissing's death.    Will Warburton is a young gentleman of means, a man of commerce, who, losing everything in speculation, is forced into the life of a grocer, a thing he finds, at first, enormously tragic.

In this invaluable resource for fans and students, Gissing turns his keen critical eye to the life and work of Dickens. Gissing focuses on Dickens’s storytelling skills, characterizations, satirical bent, and his growth as a man and writer.

Popular Victorian-era novelist George Gissing was best known for his realistic portrayals of social problems in the period in texts such as New Grub Street. The novel Denzil Quarrier finds Gissing stretching beyond this well-trod comfort zone, telling the story of an heir to a Norwegian timber fortune in a gripping character study that is heavily influenced by the work of playwright Henrik Ibsen.

«George Robert Gissing (1857 - 1903) was a famous English novelist. Throughout his life also worked as a teacher, tutor. Best known in the literary world for his first novel "Workers in the Dawn" in the 1880. Great recognition achieved due to his novels which are published in modern...

George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English author who also worked as a teacher.  Gissing wrote over 20 novels including New Grub Street, The Nether World, and The Odd Women.  This edition of Unclassed includes a table of contents.

George Gissing was an English author considered as the important representant of the naturalistic genre. “The Salt of the Earth” is one of fifteen stories, entered in the collection “The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories”, published in 1906. Together with other stories, “The Salt of the...

"The House of Cobwebs" consists some stories, including the title story. Each story was focused on a main hero and plunged the heroes in the different adventures that allow to a reader to understand the person of the story. While the reader may be led to expect a dramatic resolution, Gissing's...

George Gissing was an English author considered as the important representer of the naturalistic genre. “The Riding-Whip” is a short story, entered in the collection “The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories”, published in 1906. Together with other stories, “The Riding-Whip” focuses on a...

George Gissing was an English author considered as as the important representant of the naturalistic genre. “The Scrupulous Father” is one of fifteen stories, entered in the collection “The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories”, published in 1906. Together with other stories, “The Scrupulous...