In the 18th century, London's Grub Street was the center of the hack writing universe, a place where the desperate went once their dreams of literary achievement had finally faded. A century later, Grub Street is no more, but the daily grind remains. Amid such circumstances, two men form an unlikely alliance. New Grub Street is a novel by George Gissing.
In the 18th century, London's Grub Street was the center of the hack writing universe, a place where the desperate went once their dreams of literary achievement had finally faded. A century later, Grub Street is no more, but the daily grind remains. Amid such circumstances, two men form an unlikely alliance. New Grub Street is a novel by George Gissing.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist. Born in Yorkshire, he excelled as a student from a young age, earning a scholarship to Owens College where he won prizes for his poetry and academic writing. Expelled and arrested for a series of thefts in 1876, Gissing was forced to leave England for the United States, teaching classics and working as a short story writer in Massachusetts and Chicago. The following year, he returned to England and embarked on a career as a professional novelist, publishing works of naturalism inspired by his experience of poverty and the works of Charles Dickens. After going through an acrimonious divorce, Gissing remarried in 1891 and entered a turbulent relationship with Edith Alice Underwood, with whom he raised two children before separating in 1897. During this time, after writing several unpublished novels, Gissing found success with New Grub Street (1891), Born in Exile (1892), and The Odd Women (1893). In the last years of his life, Gissing befriended H.G. Wells and travelled throughout Italy, Germany, and France, where he died after falling ill during a winter walk.
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