Author: A.C. Gissing
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: hunt, holman, willam
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 1443731846
ISBN-13: 9781443731843

WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT- A BIOGRAPHY By A. C. GISSING. With Illustrations. Contents include: CHAPTER PAGE I. CHILD AND STUDENT. 1827 TO 1847 II II. THE PRE-RAPHAELITES. 1848 . . 21 III. D. G. ROSSETTI. 1848 TO 1849 33 IV. POVERTY AND PUBLIC INSULT. 1849 TO 1850 43 V. VALENTINE AND SYLVIA. 1850 TO 1851 . 52 VI. WORK AND HAPPY INTERCOURSE. 1851 TO 1852 63 VII. FIRST RECOGNITION. 1853 TO 1854 . 76 VIII. EGYPT AND PALESTINE. 1854 . . 91 IX. THE DEAD SEA. 1854 . . . 105 X, WORK AND ADVENTURE, 1854 TO 1856 . 117 XL CRIPPLED THROUGH LACK OF MEANS. 1856 TO 1858 ..... 131 XIL ASSISTANCE AT LAST. 1858 TO 18

Author: George Gissing
Publisher: Wilson Press
Keywords: charlatan, friend
Number of Pages: 442
Published: 2010-03-13
List price: $33.45
ISBN-10: 1444663283
ISBN-13: 9781444663280

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: George Gissing
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: clarendon, isabel
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2009-02-09
List price: $19.90
ISBN-10: 1406827983
ISBN-13: 9781406827989

First published 1885

Authors:George, Gissing,
Publisher: Pomona Pre
Keywords: novel, street, grub, new
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 1406790435
ISBN-13: 9781406790436

For many readers New Grub Street is Gissing’s masterpiece. If this is not accepted, it remains beyond doubt one of his most interesting and most powerful novels. As a realistic picture of the literary in late Victorian England, New Grub Street has few rivals. There is much of Gissing himself, his idealism, pride, impracticality, in Edwin Reardon; the study of the creative artist oppressed by poverty bears the stamp of bitter experience. Of the other characters, pedantic Alfred Yule, the humble scholar Biffen, ambitious and worldly Jasper Milvain are still recognizable literary types. New

Author: George Gissing
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: ryecroft, henry, papers, private
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1419179020
ISBN-13: 9781419179020

I am busy with the hawkweeds; that is to say, I am learning to distinguish and to name as many as I can. For scientific classification I have little mind; it does not happen to fall in with my habits of thought; but I like to be able to give its name (the "trivial" by choice) to every flower I meet in my walks. Why should I be content to say, "Oh, it’s a hawkweed"?

Author: George Gissing
Publisher: Seabrook Press
Keywords: cobwebs, house
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2008-10-06
List price: $30.45
ISBN-10: 1443760897
ISBN-13: 9781443760898

The terms book and novel became almost synonymous in houses which were not Puritan, yet where books and reading, in the era of few and uilfree libraries, were strictly circumscribed. George Gissing was no exception to this rile. The English novel was at the summit of its reputation during his boyish days. As a lad of eight or nine he remembered the parts of Our Mutual Friend coming to the house, and could recall the smile of welcome with which they were infallibly received. In the dining-room at home was a handsomely framed picture which he regarded with an almost idolatrous veneration. It was

Author: George Gissing
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: whip, riding
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1419180584
ISBN-13: 9781419180583

They had a general acquaintance with each other’s domestic affairs. Both were widowers; both lived alone. Mr. Daffy’s son was married, and dwelt in London; the same formula applied to Mr. Lott’s daughter. And, as it happened, the marriages had both been a subject of parental dissatisfaction. Very rarely had Mr. Lott let fall a word with regard to his daughter, Mrs. Bowles, but the townsfolk were well aware that he thought his son-in-law a fool, if not worse; Mrs. Bowles, in the seven years since her wedding, had only two or three times revisited her father’s house, and