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Краткое содержание: Нью-Граб-стрит
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Jasper Milvain treats writing as a trade, while his friend Reardon struggles to earn a living from his novels in London.
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- Слов: 175 100
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- Первая публикация
- 1891by Джордж Гиссинг
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Нью-Граб-стрит in short
New Grub Street follows several people who earn their bread by writing in London. Jasper Milvain learns the market and rises. Edwin Reardon, a more delicate novelist, loses his gift under the pressure of bills and a wife who wants more.
What Нью-Граб-стрит is about
A man is being hanged in London this morning, says Jasper Milvain as he cracks his breakfast egg in a quiet country village. He finds comfort in the thought, because things are bad for him, but not that bad. It tells you how he sees the world.
New Grub Street, by George Gissing, was published in 1891. It follows people who live by the pen in London in the early 1880s. Gissing knew that life from the inside, and he writes with anger and dry humour. You meet a man who calls literature a trade, a novelist who cannot sell, and a critic soured by grudges.
Для кого. This book suits you if you enjoy Victorian novels about money, marriage and ambition, or stories of writers, editors and publishers, and if you like characters who argue about what a good life costs.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Jasper Milvain treats literature as a trade
The novel opens in the village of Finden, where Jasper is staying with his mother and sisters. He is twenty-five, neat and very sure of himself. He reads a letter from his friend Reardon and judges it coldly. Reardon is the old impractical artist, he says, while he himself is the literary man of 1882.
Jasper explains his creed to anyone who will listen. A writer is a skilled tradesman who watches the market and sells the same work many times. His sister Maud calls this ignoble, yet she knows their mother lives on a small annuity, and Jasper has come to ask for more of it.
Jasper is honest about his motives, even charming, and his candour works like armour. Whoever says openly what others hide seems to have nothing to be ashamed of. The cleverest sellers say so plainly and expect to win.
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The Yules carry the old Grub Street
Walking near Finden, Jasper passes a grizzled man and a pale girl with short curls.
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Edwin Reardon cannot write another page
Edwin Reardon lives at the top of eight flights of stairs near Regent's Park.
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Poverty makes every choice smaller
Edwin sets himself four slips of manuscript a day.
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Biffen and Whelpdale show other ways to fail
Harold Biffen is Reardon's closest friend, a shabby tutor in a bare attic.
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Marian, her father and the poisoned review
In London, Marian works in the Reading Room helping her father with articles and indexes.
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Reardon asks for a clerk's job
Reardon finishes a one-volume story and sends it to the publisher Jedwood, who refuses it politely.
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John Yule's will shakes every family
Months pass, and Jasper's affairs improve.
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Love is weighed against money
Jasper tells Whelpdale that romantic love is an old superstition, and that a sensible man will choose a wife who fits his needs and his income.
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A satire told with a cold, clear eye
Gissing tells the story in the third person, stepping close to each character in turn.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Jasper Milvain A clever young journalist who sees writing as a trade and is determined to make a name and a good income.
- Edwin Reardon A sensitive novelist whose gift fades under the strain of poverty and a failing marriage, though he clings to his ideals.
- Amy Reardon Reardon's beautiful, practical wife, who wants social standing and has little patience for a husband who cannot earn.
- Marian Yule A quiet, thoughtful young woman who works in the Reading Room helping her father and longs for love and a life of her own.
- Alfred Yule Marian's father, a learned, embittered critic who is ruled by old quarrels and hungers for an editor's chair.
- Harold Biffen Reardon's loyal, poor friend, a tutor who writes a plain novel of ordinary life and asks nothing from the world.
- Maud Milvain Jasper's proud, handsome sister, who wants to move into polite society and does not hide her scorn for poverty.
- Whelpdale A good-natured, flattering friend who sells literary advice and looks for a wife and a successful scheme.
How it ends (spoiler)
Reardon falls ill and dies at Brighton after Amy summons him because their son has diphtheria, and the two are reconciled only at the last. Biffen, broken by hopeless love for Amy and by failure, takes poison on Putney Heath. Marian's legacy is lost, her father goes blind, and Jasper abandons her. After a refusal from a rich woman, he marries Amy and prospers in society.
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Вопросы о книге Нью-Граб-стрит
What is New Grub Street about?
It follows several London writers in the early 1880s, showing how money, publishers and reviewers shape their work and marriages. Jasper Milvain succeeds by treating writing as business, while Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen struggle to keep to their ideals.
What does the title New Grub Street mean?
Grub Street was the old London street linked with poor hack writers. Gissing adds new to suggest that the same hunger for pay now runs through a modern, bigger and faster literary trade of papers, magazines and circulating libraries.
Who is Jasper Milvain and what does he want?
Jasper is a young journalist who believes literature is a trade and that success comes from knowing the market and making friends. He wants a thousand pounds a year and a wife with money, and he is open about it.
When was New Grub Street written, and is it based on real life?
Gissing published it in 1891, drawing on his own years as a poor writer in London. The characters are invented, but the publishing world, the Reading Room and the money pressures are closely based on real conditions.
Is New Grub Street worth reading today?
Yes for anyone curious about creative work and money. Its clear, lively scenes and sharp talk make the questions easy to follow: how to live by your art, what you owe family, and whether success needs compromise.
Как сослаться на это издание
Gissing, George. New Grub Street. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/new-grub-street.
Gissing, G. (2026). New Grub Street. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/new-grub-street (Original work published 1891)
Gissing, George. New Grub Street. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/new-grub-street.
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note = {First published 1891}
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