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Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Ark

Unabridged — 14 hours, 10 minutes

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Overview

Before he was 21 George Gissing conceived the ambition of writing a long series of novels, somewhat in the manner of Balzac, whom he admired. The first of these, Workers in the Dawn, appeared in 1880, to be followed by 21 others. Between 1886 and 1895 he published one or more novels every year. He also wrote Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (1898), a perceptive piece of literary criticism.

Gissing's work has a good deal of documentary interest for its detailed and accurate accounts of lower...