'Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were
over.'Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career
as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of critical acclaim
for his fourth novel, he has married the refined Amy Yule. But the
brilliant future Amy expected has evaded her husband.
The
catastrophe of the Reardon's failing marriage is set among the rising
and falling fortunes of novelists, journalists, and scholars who labour
'in the valley of the shadow of books'. George Gissing's New Grub
Street was written at breakneck speed in the autumn of 1890 and is
considered his best novel. Intensely autobiographical, it reflects the
literary and cultural crisis in Britain at the end of the nineteenth
century.
New Grub Street - George Gissing
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