A review by navinvembar
New Grub Street by George Gissing

5.0

I enjoyed this book quite a lot - it's fascinating to see how similar the publishing industry of the 1890s is to the one of today. Despite our growth in technology, it doesn't really seem all that different. The effect of the Internet today is analogous to that of the telegraph then. Plus, it's hilarious to see Gissing predict the advent of realism in literature (not that it wasn't happening at the time, but its growth) as well as describing things like The Washington Post Express (a paper for the "quarter-educated" to read on buses). The Victorian melodrama wasn't all that exciting for me, but the rest of it was excellent.