George Gissing by Paul Delany

George Gissing by Paul Delany

George Orwell hailed George Gissing as 'perhaps the best novelist England has produced'. Gissing became poor by bad luck and bad judgement; he came to believe that political solutions were unlikely to abolish human misery, and declared that the great subject of his novels was the situation of educated people with 'not enough money'. Gissing was a neurotic writer, and everything in his later life was determined by the twin disasters of his imprisonment and his marriage to Nell Harrison. Gissing the novelist gives us better than anyone the flavour of London in the 1880s and 1890s: a compound of wet streets, fog, coal-smoke, narrow horizons, and an imagination equal to it all. In Paul Delany he has found the perfect biographer.

This biography does an excellent job of rehabilitating his reputation, showing how he overcame a disastrous marriage to a prostitute and imprisonment for theft to produce some of the Victorian era's most socially aware novelsDAILY TELEGRAPH A compelling biograohy -- a powerful account of one of the most melancholy lives in literature HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER An excellent account of a man of great talent and essential generosity CAMDEN NEW JOURNAL

Paul Delany was born in South London. In 2003 he retired as Chair of the Department of English at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He lives in Vancouver.

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Title	George Gissing
Author	Paul Delany
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2009-02-19
Number of pages	464
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