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)

Texts Available on Other Sites — Novels

[The full electronic texts listed below are the work of Professor Mitsuharu Matsuoka of Nagoya University, Japan, and reside on a site at his university.]

• 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
• 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

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

• Arthur's Classic Novels has free versions of eleven works.
• Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches the complete texts of Gissings's works

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