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Remembering George Gissing.
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 novels, but "merely on the strength of New Grub Street, Demos, and The Odd Women I am ready to maintain that England has produced very few better novelists."
Yet George Gissing (1857-1903) is unknown to many, perhaps most, of the reading public. Many people have read at least one Thomas Hardy novel, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), for the simple reason that it was on some high-school English reading lists in the ...
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