Part 1 General Studies
Chapter 1 Who Knows George Gissing?, Russell Kirk
Chapter 2 George Gissing, Humanist, Stanley Alden
Chapter 3 Gissing as a Portrayer of Society, Ruth Capers McKay
Chapter 4 The Permanent Stranger
Chapter 5 George Gissing, George Orwell
Chapter 6 Gissing's Heroines
Chapter 7 Division of Purpose in George Gissing, Jacob Korg
Part 2 Special Influences
Chapter 8 Influence of the Classics on Gissing's Novels of Modern Life, Samuel Vogt Gapp
Chapter 9 Gissing, Turgenev and Dostoyevsky, Gilbert Phelps
Chapter 10 Gissing and Schopenhauer, C. J. Francis
Part 3 Some Views on the Major Works
Chapter 11 George Gissing: Poet of Fatigue, Irving Howe
Chapter 12 'Grub Street', V. S. Pritchett
Chapter 13 The Spiritual Theme of Born in Exile, Jacob Korg
Chapter 14 A Novelist of the Hour, Greenough White
Chapter 15 Definition as Structure in The Ryecroft Papers, Jackson I. Cope
Chapter 16 The Main Source of The Ryecroft Papers, Jacob Korg