The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories

George Gissing, an English novelist born on November 22, 1857, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, has been esteemed for his depictions of the lower strata of Victorian society. An alumnus of Owens College (which would later become the University of Manchester), Gissing's academic excellence was overshadowed by personal travails, leading him into a life of intermittent poverty and underpinning much of his li...