Author:George Gissing

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George Gissing (1857–1903)

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 realists of the late-Victorian era.

Works

• Workers in the Dawn (1880)
• The Unclassed (1884)
• Isabel Clarendon (1885)
• Demos (1886)
• Thyrza (1887)
• A Life's Morning (1888)
• The Nether World (1889)
• The Emancipated (1890)
• New Grub Street (1891)
• Denzil Quarrier (1892)
• Born In Exile (1892)
• The Odd Women (1893)
• In the Year of Jubilee (1894)
• Eve's Ransom (1895)
• The Paying Guest (1895)
• Sleeping Fires (1895)
• The Whirlpool (1897)
• The Town Traveller (1898)
• Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (1898)
• The Crown Of Life (1899)
• By the Ionian Sea (1901)
• Our Friend the Charlatan (1901)
• The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)
• Will Warburton (1905)
• Veranilda (1903, unfinished)

Works about Gissing

• “Gissing, George” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Gissing, George Robert” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.