Squalor
Frank Kermode, 3 February 1983
Gissing: A Life in Books
by John Halperin.
Oxford, 426 pp., £18.50, September 1982,0 19 812677 8 Show More
by John Halperin.
Oxford, 426 pp., £18.50, September 1982,
George Gissing: Critical Essays
edited by Jean-Pierre Michaux.
Vision/Barnes and Noble, 214 pp., £11.95, March 1981,0 85478 404 7 Show More
edited by Jean-Pierre Michaux.
Vision/Barnes and Noble, 214 pp., £11.95, March 1981,
“... interrelated. The degree of interrelation is indeed a perpetual theme of the commentators, and M. Michaux’s collection contains some good essays touching on it, and notably on its presence in New Grub Street, where all Gissing’s woes and terrors come successfully together, so that we have a book notable for its critical power as well as for its account of ... ”