An Author To Admire

Not many readers have filled their reading lists with novels by the Victorian writer, George Gissing. Still, it might be a good idea to give Gissing a try. Who knows, maybe it’s time for a Gissing revival!

Wikipedia provides us with a somewhat complete list of Gissing’s novels, most of which are available online but unfortunately are not available in print.

• Workers in the Dawn (1880)
• The Unclassed (1884)
• Isabel Clarendon (1885)
• Demos (1886)
• Thyrza (1887)
• A Life’s Morning (1888)
• The Nether World (1889)
• The Emancipated (1890)
• New Grub Street (1891)
• Denzil Quarrier (1892)
• Born In Exile (1892)
• The Odd Women (1893)
• In the Year of Jubilee (1894)
• Eve’s Ransom (1895)
• The Paying Guest (1895)
• Sleeping Fires (1895)
• The Whirlpool (1897)
• The Town Traveller (1898)
• Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (1898)
• The Crown Of Life (1899)
• By the Ionian Sea (1901)
• Our Friend the Charlatan (1901)
• The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)
• Will Warburton (1905)
• Veranilda (1903, unfinished)
• Stories and Sketches (posthumous, 1938) with preface by Alfred C. Gissing