George Gissing author biography, plus links to books by George Gissing.

George Gissing

George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist, who published twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. Meagrely successful in his lifetime, by the 1940s he had been recognized as a literary genius, with George Orwell pronouncing that "England has produced few better novelists".

This biography was last updated on 12/10/2024.

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