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George Gissing: An Introduction |
 | | Gissing's fiction is broadly naturalistic and anti-romantic in flavour and exclusively urban in setting. |
 | | Gissing was no experimenter in fictional technique, and he certainly wasn't interested in testing the boundaries of toleration. |
 | | Gissing expended much effort on his style, and with time it became extremely distinctive: a melancholy, ruminative, confiding style, rising often to a high note of indignation or exaltation, full of the most acute, if occasionally laboured, psychological analysis, varied by excellent lively dialogue and shot through by flashes of dark, mordant, saturnine humour. |
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