The heroic life of George Gissing / by Pierre Coustillas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coustillas, Pierre.

Contributor:

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gissing, George, 1857-1903.

Gissing, George.

Authors, English--19th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

3 volumes ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2011-2012.

Summary:

George Gissing (1857-1903) lived a life worthy of the plot from one of his own novels. An exceptionally gifted man, born into relatively genteel comfort, he nonetheless managed to enter into two disastrous marriages with working-class women, got thrown out of university for stealing, spent a month doing hard labour in prison and died before the age of fifty. It is all the more surprising then, that he still managed to write twenty-three novels, over a hundred short stories, as well as works of literary criticism and a travelogue. This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Coustillas's exhaustive research is based on all the known surviving Gissing correspondence, Gissing's works and every piece of literary criticism on Gissing from 1880 onwards. Press archives from England, America, the former Colonies, France and Germany have all been consulted. This approach, by the foremost authority on Gissing, allows new insights into his life and work.--From publisher website.

Contents:

Pt. I. 1857-1888

Pt. II. 1888-1897

Pt. III. 1897-1903.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

9781848931718

1848931719

9781848931732

1848931735

9781848931756

1848931751

9781848931725

1848931727

OCLC:

741344232