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The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
by George GISSING (1857 - 1903)A Charming Family
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced by George Eliot, whose work he greatly admired. Another of his famous works, New Grub Street, entails a blunt critique of the working class life he knew by experience, especially during a number of the years he spent in the United States.This collection of stories ranges from the humorous to the tragic. Throughout, Gissing pokes mild fun at his characters' human frailties: egotism, self-satisfaction, and pomposity, among others. - Summary by Kirsten Wever
Listen next episodes of The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories:
A Daughter of the Lodge , A Lodger in Maze Pond , Fate and the Apothecary , The Pig and Whistle , The Riding Whip , The Salt of the Earth , Topham's Chance