This portrait of toilers in late-nineteenth-century London's literary world depicts abject professional, personal, and marital disappointment -- and the rise of one man who maneuvers to snatch the glittering prizes. Absorbing, ironic, and often extremely (if darkly) funny.
New Grub Street
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In the Year of Jubilee
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The Odd Women
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The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
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The Whirlpool
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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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Demos
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In the Year of Jubilee
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Born in Exile
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The Odd Women
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New Grub Street
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The Floating Book
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How to Survive a Plague : The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS
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Humphry Clinker
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Brothers
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Ponti
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Black Lace
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
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Deep River
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
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Keeping Watch
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This is Happiness
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