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,
“... a commodity, and writers mere ‘hands’. If he is worth reading it is not as an act of what Samuel Hynes calls ‘Victoriolatry’ but because he did make a world, and because, as he sometimes remarked, he could see the future. He wrote thirty-odd books, including a good one about Greece, a good one about Dickens, and the fantasised ... ”