New Grub Street (Annotated)

George Gissing's New Grub Street is a searching realist anatomy of literary life in late-Victorian London, set amid the precarious economics of journalism, publishing, and authorship. Through the opposed careers of Edwin Reardon, the conscientious but commercially failing novelist, and Jasper Milvain, the pragmatic man of letters, Gissing dramatizes the collision between artistic integrity and mar...