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George (Robert) Gissing | | Variant Name: |
George (Robert) Gissing, George Robert Gissing | | Birth Date: |
November 22, 1857 | | Death Date: |
December 28, 1903 | | Place of Birth: |
Wakefield, Yorkshire, England | | Place of Death: |
Ispoure, St.-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France | | Nationality: |
British, English | | Gender: |
Male |
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 Biography of George (Robert) Gissing
9,912 words, approx. 33 pages
 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... summary from source:
Biography of George (Robert) Gissing
8,429 words, approx. 28 pages
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... summary from source:
Biography of George (Robert) Gissing
4,047 words, approx. 14 pages
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... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 George Gissing Information
1,004 words, approx. 3 pages
 George Gissing (IPA: /ˈgɪsɪŋ/; November 22, 1857 – December 28, 1903) was an English novelist who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. Although his early works are naturalistic, he developed into one of the most accomplished...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Robert L. Selig
10,002 words, approx. 33 pages
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.”
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Critical Essay by Robert L. Selig
4,225 words, approx. 14 pages
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.”
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Critical Essay by Thomas Seccombe
3,559 words, approx. 12 pages
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.
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