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New Grub Street

First published: 1891
Pages: 465

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Chapter 01 - A Man of His Day
22:11
Chapter 02 - The House of Yule
23:12
Chapter 03 - Holiday, Part 1
16:18
Chapter 03 - Holiday, Part 2
25:53
Chapter 04 - An Author and His Wife
26:57
Chapter 05 - The Way Hither
31:06
Chapter 06 - The Practical Friend
28:06
Chapter 07 - Marian's Home, Part 1
26:23
Chapter 07 - Marian's Home, Part 2
30:52
Chapter 08 - To the Winning Side, Part 1
19:47
Chapter 08 - To the Winning Side, Part 2
19:33
Chapter 09 - Invita Minerva
24:49
Chapter 10 - The Friends of the Family
32:43
Chapter 11 - Respite
16:44
Chapter 12 - Work Without Hope
22:23
Chapter 13 - A Warning
24:04
Chapter 14 - Ecruits
39:50
Chapter 15 - The Last Resource, Part 1
16:50
Chapter 15 - The Last Resource, Part 2
17:33
Chapter 16 - Rejection
30:33
Chapter 17 - The Parting
40:22
Chapter 18 - The Old Home
22:28
Chapter 19 - The Past Revived
21:28
Chapter 20 - The End of Waiting
41:57
Chapter 21 - Mr Yule Leaves Town, Part 1
19:17
Chapter 21 - Mr Yule Leaves Town, Part 2
28:38
Chapter 22 - The Legatees
31:02
Chapter 23 - A Proposed Investment
30:18
Chapter 24 - Jasper's Magnanimity
31:05
Chapter 25 - A Fruitless Meeting, Part 1
14:23
Chapter 25 - A Fruitless Meeting, Part 2
21:15
Chapter 26 - Married Woman's Property
30:32
Chapter 27 - The Lonely Man, Part 1
18:12
Chapter 27 - The Lonely Man, Part 2
27:03
Chapter 28 - Interim
27:03
Chapter 29 - Catastrophe
32:33
Chapter 30 - Waiting on Destiny
34:49
Chapter 31 - A Rescue and a Summons, Part 1
17:25
Chapter 31 - A Rescue and a Summons, Part 2
20:53
Chapter 32 - Reardon Becomes Practical
29:39
Chapter 33 - The Sunny Way
26:31
Chapter 34 - A Check, Part 1
16:48
Chapter 34 - A Check, Part 2
20:21
Chapter 35 - Fever and Rest
24:00
Chapter 36 - Jasper's Delicate Case
31:20
Chapter 37 - Rewards
19:25

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About this book

Set in the grinding literary marketplace of 1880s London, George Gissing's 1891 novel measures two ways of making a living by the pen. Edwin Reardon writes for art and slowly starves, his marriage buckling as the money runs out and inspiration dries up. Jasper Milvain writes for the market, calculating and quick, and rises exactly as far as his cynicism will carry him. Around them move struggling reviewers, exhausted scholars, and women whose futures hang on a man's success. Gissing knew this world from the inside, and his portrait of talent crushed by commerce remains one of the most honest books ever written about the writing life. Available here as a free PDF and EPUB edition.

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George Gissing

George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist whose work drew on his own years of poverty and hardship. Author of New Grub Street and The Odd Women, he wrote unsparingly about class, money, and the frustrated ambitions of the educated poor in late Victorian England.