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    Six Short Stories by George Gissing
    Six Short Stories by George Gissing
    Six Short Stories by George Gissing
    Audiobook3 hours

    Six Short Stories by George Gissing

    Written by George Gissing

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    George Robert Gissing (1857-1903) was a popular English novelist and short story writer who also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. His works often reflect the struggle for existence in a hostile world and the many (often tragic) compromises which are made along the way.

    In this setting his often complex and endearing characters battle for their own love or artistic integrity, which poverty or social morals threaten to stifle.

    Humplebee
    The Pig and Whistle
    A Poor Gentleman
    The Scrupulous Father
    The Salt of the Earth
    The House of Cobwebs
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateApr 20, 2015
    ISBN9781467698313
    Six Short Stories by George Gissing
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    George Gissing

    George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist. Born in Yorkshire, he excelled as a student from a young age, earning a scholarship to Owens College where he won prizes for his poetry and academic writing. Expelled and arrested for a series of thefts in 1876, Gissing was forced to leave England for the United States, teaching classics and working as a short story writer in Massachusetts and Chicago. The following year, he returned to England and embarked on a career as a professional novelist, publishing works of naturalism inspired by his experience of poverty and the works of Charles Dickens. After going through an acrimonious divorce, Gissing remarried in 1891 and entered a turbulent relationship with Edith Alice Underwood, with whom he raised two children before separating in 1897. During this time, after writing several unpublished novels, Gissing found success with New Grub Street (1891), Born in Exile (1892), and The Odd Women (1893). In the last years of his life, Gissing befriended H.G. Wells and travelled throughout Italy, Germany, and France, where he died after falling ill during a winter walk.

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