Will Warburton
Will Warburton: A Romance of Real Life was George Gissing's last novel. It was published in 1905, two years after Gissing's death.
Title page of the first edition | |
Author | George Gissing |
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Country | England |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Archibald Constable & Co. |
Publication date | 1905 |
Pages | 333 |
Plot summary
Will Warburton is a young gentleman of means, a man of commerce, who, losing everything in speculation, is forced into the life of a grocer,[1] a thing he finds, at first, enormously tragic.
Will keeps his fate secret from his friends and his family and lives a life of humiliation and privation. It is only when the woman with whom he is falling in love discovers he is a grocer, and throws him over, that Will realizes that there is no shame in being a grocer.
Notes
- Adcock, A. St. John (1905). "Gissing's Last Novel," The Bookman, Vol. XXVIII, No. 167, p. 162.
Further reading
- Halperin, John (1985). Introduction to Will Warburton. London: Hogarth Press.
- Partridge, Colin (1981). Introduction to Will Warburton. Brighton, Sussex: The Harvester Press.
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