Often referred to as George Gissing’s first novel, Workers in the Dawn is actually his first published novel, one Gissing himself supported with a £150 investment. Not at all popular with reviewers, who criticized its excessive pessimism, attacks on organized… Read More ›
Bildungsroman novels
Analysis of William Makepeace Thackeray’s The History of Pendennis
William Makepeace Thackeray published his second novel, The History of Pendennis, as a serial between November 1848 and December 1850. It ran at the same time as Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, a novel to which it is often compared. The… Read More ›
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