Show Street New Grub Is Latest in J by Series I fk y New Grub Street by George Gissing has just been added to the Modern Library series of leather leather bound bound classics It appeared ap ap- first in 1891 at the very beginning of that auspicious decade doe dec ade wh which ich showed us a new way to view old vistas Many assert that it t is largely autobiographical t at it sets forth Gissing's struggles struggles' as an luthor a genius who was ignored in his day an artist who raved wildly and in vain at the manner manner man man- ner in which even then thim many writers were beginning to pander to the public appetite for trash Many hold that tho story is Gissing's bo book k of the heart a chronicle of characters tl that at he knew through the intimacy of suffering shared and defeats exp ex- ex p d or understood It is called back to life today according acc to the publishers because because be be- cause of the insistent determination tion of a new age t to r regard gard Gissing Gissing Gis- Gis sing as a stylist second to none a keen analyst of motives and an an extraordinary literary figure whose inexplicable hardships stir the imagination of an age surfeited with material thIngs thIngs- The Modern Library |