George Gissing Books

A sharp London novel about authors, journalism, poverty, ambition, and the literary marketplace.

Unmarried women, work, marriage, and independence collide in a searching Victorian social novel.

A grim London novel of poverty, inheritance, family pressure, and moral injury among the working poor.

A reflective English classic of reading, solitude, aging, nature, memory, and literary retirement.

A gritty English social novel about class, poverty, gender, aspiration, and moral isolation.

A late-Victorian novel of class anxiety, ambition, unbelief, and intellectual pride.