Quote:An English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. George Gissing 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).

Contents
The Emancipated
The Paying Guest
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
A Life's Morning
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
The Whirlpool
By the Ionian Sea, Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy
The Unclassed
Eve's Ransom
Will Warburton
Veranilda
Our Friend the Charlatan
Denzil Quarrier
The Crown of Life
Thyrza (1887)
The Town Traveller (1897)
In the Year of Jubilee (1894)
Born in Exile (1891)
The Nether World (1888)
Demos (1886)
The Odd Women (1892)
New Grub Street (1890)

New Grub Street (1890)
This portrait of toilers in late-nineteenth-century London's literary world depicts abject professional, personal, and marital disappointment -- and the rise of one man who maneuvers to snatch the glittering prizes. Absorbing, ironic, and often extremely (if darkly) funny.

Will Warburton -
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, enormoursly tragic. Will keeps his fate secret from his friends and his family... A truly outstanding novel, funny, and full to the brim with life.