Gissing
Americannoun
noun
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George Orwell called Gissing “perhaps the best novelist England has produced,” and the Guardian included “New Grub Street” on its 2015 list of the 100 best English-language novels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Gissing had made a terrible hash of his early life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Chunman Gissing, 65, has been coming to Viet-Wah since she moved to Seattle in the 1980s.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
Mrs. Gissing remembered in 2006, “he said, ‘I knew I couldn’t save the world, I knew I couldn’t stop war from coming, but I knew I could save one human life.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022
Dickens, the Gissing school will say, was here pointing out certain sad truths of psychology; can any one say that he ought not to point them out?
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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