# New Grub Street

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- Book: [New Grub Street](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-gissing/new-grub-street) ([New Grub Street.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-gissing/new-grub-street.md))
- Authors: [George Gissing](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-gissing)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4819-020-1
- Published: 2014-08-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

George Gissing's best-known novel shows us the literary underbelly of Victorian England, and the writers striving to forge their reputations in 'the street of no shame'. ‘As a study in the pathology of the literary life it is unequalled, and still surprisingly relevant’ David Lodge, Independent Grub Street - where would-be writers aim high, publishers plumb the depths and literature is a trade, never a calling. In a literary world disfigured by greed and explotation, two very different writers rise and fall: Edward Reardon, a novelist whose high standards prevent him from pandering to the common taste, and Jasper Milvain, who possesses no such scruples. Gissing's dark and darkly funny novel presents a little-seen but richly absorbing slice of nineteeth-century society. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANTHONY QUINN