The Paying Guest
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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 short 1895 comedy is the one time he let himself be funny about the lower-middle class he usually wrote ...
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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 short 1895 comedy is the one time he let himself be funny about the lower-middle class he usually wrote ...
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