George Robert Gissing was a thoroughly earnest and amazingly prolific writer, producing twenty-two novels, many works of nonfiction, and more than a hundred sketches and tales during his twenty-six-year career (the exact number of his stories is still...

Although he was once best known as the author of a volume of essays, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903), George Gissing is now recognized as one of the important novelists of the late Victorian period. His reputation rests on the long series...

Although George Gissing would have denied being a book collector and obliquely did so in his semiautobiographical The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903), the last book he published in his lifetime, evidence that he had the turn of mind and habits...

George Orwell, who was born in 1903, the year of George Gissing's death, noted that most of Gissing's works were already, by the 1940s, out of print and virtually unobtainable. He admired Gissing's writing greatly. Orwell had read only a few of the...

George Gissing on music ALLAN W. ATLAS tracks the musical encounters of the distinguished late-Victorian novelist THE LATE-VICTORIAN novelist George Gissing (1857-1903) - best known today for New Grub Street (1891), The odd women (1893), and The private papers of Henry Ryecroft...

In the following introduction, Selig investigates the circumstances surrounding the writing of Gissing's American stories, and asserts that “his large body of fiction accepted in America paved the way later for Gissing's success.”

In the following essay, Selig outlines the themes and plots of Gissing's most accomplished short stories: “A Victim of Circumstances,” “Comrades in Arms,” “The Schoolmaster's Vision,” and “The House of Cobwebs.”

In the following excerpt, which was originally published as the introduction to the 1906 edition of The House of Cobwebs, Seccombe surveys the distinctive qualities of Gissing's fiction and places him in context with other nineteenth-century English authors.