The Paying Guest

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Spencer Gore, Philip de László and Walter Sickert. A suburban couple take in a paying guest to help with the rent, and she is a young woman of energy, ambition and no manners whatever — after which nothing in the house is safe. Gissing's academic career ended at eighteen when he was caught stealing to support a young prostitute he married; this ...