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George Gissing: A Life By Paul Delany

Posted at 6:00PM Thursday 13 Mar 2008



"He was one of the cleverest and most learned of English writers, and one of the most blinkered." So says Paul Delany on the curious combination of intellectual acumen and personal unwisdom in George Gissing, late-Victorian novelist and still insufficiently acknowledged chronicler of literary corruption, female aspiration and the struggles of exiled intellectuals.

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