A Gissing Sampler
- A house in a New London Suburb (from In the Year of Jubilee, 1894)
- Gissing is called to a Lambeth slum to identify the body of his first wife (from Diary, ed. Coustillas, 1 March 1888)
- A Bank-holiday outing (from The Nether World, 1889)
- Portrait of a Ritualist (from Workers in the Dawn, 1889)
Texts Available on Other Sites — Novels
[The full electronic texts listed below are the work of Professor Mitsuharu Matsuoka of Nagoya University, Japan, now avaialable at Victorian-Studies.net.]
- Workers in the Dawn (1880) text
- The Unclassed (1884) text
- Demos (1886) text
- Isabel Clarendon (1886) text
- Thyrza (1887) text
- A Life's Morning (1888) text
- The Nether World (1889) text
- The Emancipated (1890) text
- New Grub Street (1891) text
- Denzil Quarrier (1892) text
- Born in Exile (1892) text
- The Odd Women (1893) text — brief discussion
- In the Year of Jubilee (1894) text
- Eve's Ransom (1895) text
- Sleeping Fires (1895) text
- The Paying Guest (1896) text
- The Whirlpool (1897) text
- The Town Traveller (1898) text
- The Crown of Life (1899) text
- Our Friend the Charlatan (1901) text
- The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1902) text
- Veranilda (1904) text
- Will Warburton (1905) text
Gissing's Victorian London is not a genteel bourgeois place; it is a ghastly inferno in which the damned struggle to survive. The few interventions made to improve the lot of he poor — the introduction of state education, for example — equip them with skills to articulate but never to escape their brutal lives. . . . Workers in the Dawn charts the efforts of the preciously gifted slum-born artist Arthur Golding to balance his dedication to art with his commitment to his class. — Christine Ferguson, Times Literary Supplement (30 July 2010): 25
Texts Available on Other Sites — Short Stories
[More than twenty short stories are available in e-text .]
- Human Odds and Ends (1897) text
- The House of Cobwebs (1906) text
- The Sins of the Fathers and Other Tales (1924) text
- Brownie (1931)
- George Gissing: Stories and Sketches (1938)
- George Gissing: Essays and Fiction (1970)
- My First Rehearsal and My Clerical Rival (1970)
Literary criticism and other Nonfiction (some available inline)
- By the Ionian Sea (1900) — travel writing text
- Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (1898) text
- The Immortal Dickens (1925) text
- Introduction to Rochester Edition of Dickens's David Copperfield (in The
- Dickensian, Spring 1981)
Autobiographical Materials
- Collected Letters of George Gissing, The. . Ed. Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas. Volume one (1863-1880); Volume two (1881-1885). Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1990-1991. [Review essay]
- London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: The Diary of George Gissing, Novelist, ed. Pierre Coustillas (1978)
- George Gissing?s Commonplace Book, ed Jacob Korg (1962)
Other On-line Texts
- Project Gutenberg
- Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches the complete texts of Gissings's works
Created 26 November 2004
Last modified 28 December 2021