New grub street
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016
- xxix, 487 p. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
This portrait of toilers in late-nineteenth-century London's literary world depicts abject professional, personal, and marital disappointment -- and the rise of one man who maneuvers to snatch the glittering prizes. Absorbing, ironic, and often extremely (if darkly) funny.