This comprehensive study of George Gissing's short stories and related non-fiction is essential reading for students of nineteenth-century realism. For the firs

Most of George Gissing's 23 novels have a certain air of autobiography, despite Gissing's frequent arguments that his fictional plots bear little resemblance to

When he is eight years old Arthur Golding watches his gifted but dissolute father die in poverty and squalor. Aided by a series of brilliantly-drawn characters,