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New Grub Street

George Gissing

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1891
Pages
Pages 560

A struggling novelist starves for his art while his ambitious friend churns out easy journalism and rises without a backward glance. When the novelist dies, the friend marries his widow and takes it all.

Literature nowadays is a trade.
New Grub Street, George Gissing

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