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The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III - 1897-1903 (Hardcover)
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The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III - 1897-1903 (Hardcover)
Series: The Heroic Life of George Gissing
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George Gissing (1857-1903) lived a life worthy of the plot from one
of his own novels. An exceptionally gifted man, born into
relatively genteel comfort, he nonetheless managed to enter into
two disastrous marriages with working-class women, got thrown out
of university for stealing, spent a month doing hard labour in
prison and died before the age of fifty. It is all the more
surprising then, that he still managed to write twenty-three novels
and over a hundred short stories, as well as works of literary
criticism and a travelogue. This ambitious three-volume biography
examines both his life and writing chronologically and in close
detail. Coustillas's exhaustive research is based on all the known
surviving Gissing correspondence, Gissing's works and every piece
of literary criticism on Gissing from 1880 onwards. Press archives
from England, America, the former Colonies, France and Germany have
all been consulted. This approach, by the foremost authority on
Gissing, allows new insights into his life and work. This final
volume in Coustillas's prodigious biography examines the turbulent
last years of the author's life and his literary afterlife. After
the break-up of his second marriage, Gissing's health began to
decline and he was diagnosed with emphysema, precipitating his
permanent move abroad. In contrast to his personal problems, his
literary reputation soared and he formed new friendships with other
writers of the day, including Henry James and H G Wells. He wrote
Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (1898), travelled to Rome in the
same year and produced By the Ionian Sea (1901) about his 'rambles'
in Calabria. The last of Gissing's books to be published in his
lifetime was The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903). The most
autobiographical of his works, it was also his favourite, and the
most widely-read in the years after his death. He died in France on
28th December 1903.
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