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The Once despised commercial hacks of Grub Street are now in the ascendant, and there is little call for writing of artistic merit. Sensitive novelist Edwin Reardon thought his reputation was safe, but poverty undermines his temperament and he finds it increasingly difficult to produce anything marketable. As his fortunes dwindle his marriage founders, and the future belongs to such a Jasper Milvain, a self-seeking writer of facile reviews who has no real interest in literature as an art form but thrives by manipulating public opinion, Gissing's bleak vision is rendered with masterly brilliance. Paperback Ed 1996.
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