New Grub Street

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Marianne North, Arthur Streeton and Hubert von Herkomer. Two writers, one who can produce what sells and one who cannot, and the woman who married the second on the strength of his reviews. Gissing lost a brilliant academic career at eighteen for stealing to keep a prostitute he later married, and knew the reading room, the pawnshop and the thre...