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About this audiobook
"New Grub Street" is an 1891 novel and masterpiece by British author George Gissing.
Based on Gissing’s own struggle to find paid work as a fledgling author (and even in the middle of his career), it characterises the low-paid, low-quality genre known as “hack literature” for which he wrote. The book’s title refers to Grub Street in London, which was known, before Gissing’s time, for its strong presence of hack writers and publishers. The story follows two writers: the talented, reserved, and underemployed novelist Edwin Reardon, and the young, industrious, but cynical journalist Jasper Milvain. The authors have distinctly different attitudes towards the project of writing in general: Reardon views it as a tool for individual self-expression, while Milvain is sceptical whether it has a purpose at all in the modern world.
"New Grub Street" is significant for illuminating the tenuous relationship that the Victorian era had with writers, who often strongly resented the capitalist system that they had no choice but to work within and which undermined their desire to write freely.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance, Young Adult
Length21 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 5, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART 1
2Chapter 1. A Man Of His Day
3Chapter 2. The House Of Yule
4Chapter 3. Holiday
5Chapter 4. An Author And His Wife
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6Chapter 5. The Way Hither
7Chapter 6. The Practical Friend
8Chapter 7. Marian’s Home
9PART 2
10Chapter 8. To The Winning Side
11Chapter 9. Invita Minerva
12Chapter 10. The Friends Of The Family
13Chapter 11. Respite
14Chapter 12. Work Without Hope
15Chapter 13. A Warning
16Chapter 14. Recruits
17Chapter 15. The Last Resource
18PART 3
19Chapter 16. Rejection
20Chapter 17. The Parting
21Chapter 18. The Old Home
22Chapter 19. The Past Revived
23Chapter 20. The End Of Waiting
24Chapter 21. Mr Yule Leaves Town
25Chapter 22. The Legatees
26PART 4
27Chapter 23. A Proposed Investment
28Chapter 24. Jasper’s Magnanimity
29Chapter 25. A Fruitless Meeting
30Chapter 26. Married Woman’s Property
31Chapter 27. The Lonely Man
32Chapter 28. Interim
33Chapter 29. Catastrophe
34PART 5
35Chapter 30. Waiting On Destiny
36Chapter 31. A Rescue And A Summons
37Chapter 32. Reardon Becomes Practical
38Chapter 33. The Sunny Way
39Chapter 34. A Check
40Chapter 35. Fever And Rest
41Chapter 36. Jasper’s Delicate Case
42Chapter 37. Rewards
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