1st Edition
The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part II 1888�1897
By Pierre Coustillas
Copyright 2012
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Part II assesses the period of Gissing’s greatest authorial triumphs. His most critically acclaimed works, The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893) date from this time.
Chapter 1 Travels in France and Italy (September 1888-February 1889); Chapter 2 Yorkshire and the Mediterranean (March 1889-February 1890); Chapter 3 Masochism and Marriage (March 1890-February 1891); Chapter 4 Married Life in Exeter (March 1891-May 1892); Chapter 5 The Lure of London (May 1892-June 1893); Chapter 6 Brixton (June 1893-September 1894); Chapter 7 Epsom: The Unsought Conquest of Publishers and Editors (October 1894-July 1895); Chapter 8 Epsom: Short Fiction and New Troubles (July 1895-May 1896); Chapter 9 Epsom: Separation from Edith (May 1896-September 1897);
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Pierre Coustillas
