The Paying Guest

Name: The Paying Guest
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9781406926514

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70 pages2006Hard PressISBN 9781406926514

Social life and customs Fiction

About this book

A young and manipulative young woman turns her hosts' pretty, middle class, suburban home and lives upside down when she enters it as their paying guest. A short, lively satire full of humour, one of Gissing's most successful novellas.

Publication Details

Publisher: Hard Press
Published: 2006
Pages: 70
ISBN: 9781406926514

About Unknown Author

George Robert Gissing was an English novelist who published twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. Although his early works are naturalistic, he developed into one of the the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era. Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, to lower-middle class parents, Gissing went on to win a scholarship to Owens College, the present day Victoria University of Manchester. A brilliant student, he excelled at university, winning many coveted prizes, including the Shakespeare scholarship prize in 1875. Between 1891 and 1897, he produced his best works, which include *New Grub Street*, *Born in Exile*, *The Odd Women*, *In the Year of Jubilee*, and *The Whirlpool*. By the end of the century, critics placed him with Thomas Hardy and George Meredith as one of three leading novelists in England. He was friends with H. G. Wells and his wife. Source [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gissing)