New Grub Street

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Through the foggy gloom of the British Library Reading Room and the garrets of Tottenham Court Road, this novel follows a collection of hack journalists, aspiring newcomers and embittered veterans through9 the literary world of the 1880s. This study edition also contains a commentary.

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The most impressive of Gissings books . . . England has produced very few better novelists. George Orwell

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Francine Prose's most recent book is The Lives of the Muses- Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired. A contributing editor at Harper's, she is the author of ten books of fiction, including Blue Angel, a 2000 National Book Award finalist.