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In "New Grub Street" George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances... read more
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AS THE Milvains sat down to breakfast the clock of Wattleborough parish church struck eight, it was two miles away, but the strokes were borne very distinctly on the west wind this autumn morning.
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- George Gissing (Author)
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