The Town Traveller

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Philip de László, Walter Sickert and John Lavery. A commercial traveller in cheap London lodgings, a landlady, a barmaid, a missing husband and a legacy — Gissing writing comedy, on purpose, because his publisher asked for something that would sell. His academic career ended at eighteen when he was caught stealing to support a young prostitute h...