New Grub Street
Author(s): George Gissing
Genre(s): Published 1800 -1900
Narrators: Bridget Gaige, Jessi, Alan Brown, MaryAnn, Emily Livingston, Rosie, Hefyd, Margaret Espaillat, Philippa, Diana Majlinger, Doug
Number of Chapters: 46
Length: 19 hours and 34 minutes
Language: English
"The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synomynous with hack literature; as an institution, Grub Street itself no longer existed in Gissing's time. Its two central characters are a sharply contrasted pair of writers:
Edwin Reardon, a novelist of some talent but limited commercial prospects, and a shy, cerebral man; and Jasper Milvain, a young journalist, hard-working and capable of generosity, but cynical and unscrupulous about writing and its purpose in the modern (i.e. late Victorian) world".
Summary from Wikipedia.