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New Grub Street

Author
George Gissing
Read by
Amara Wrenn
Language
English
Length
17 hours 38 minutes
ISBN
9781802566512
Published
30 May 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • literary
  • London
  • publishing industry
  • ambition
  • commercial demands
  • artistic integrity
  • relationships
  • financial struggles
  • social advancement
  • human cost

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Description

Two writers, one London: Reardon starving on integrity, Milvain dining on the market. Gissing’s New Grub Street is the literary trade as a machine that eats the slow. Poverty, marriage, copy, and the question every desk still asks — art or the rent. The magazines have a stomach; the novelists have nerves. Amy’s disappointment, Marian’s proof-reading, Reardon’s collapse — a London that pays for chatter and starves a book. Read in English, unabridged.

Author

George Gissing (1857–1903) was the most unflinching realist of late Victorian England — a novelist who wrote what others preferred not to see. In New Grub Street he exposed the bitter economics of literary life: talent ground down by poverty, compromise, and the market. The Nether World, Born in Exile, and The Odd Women extended that clear-eyed vision to slum existence, intellectual exile, and the precarious lives of unmarried women.

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