New Grub Street - Penguin Classics Author:George Gissing New Grub Street (1891), George Gissing's most highly regarded novel, is the story of men and women forced to make their living by writing. Their daily lives and broken dreams, made and marred by the rigors of urban life and the demands of the fledgling mass communications industry, are presented with vivid realism and unsentimental sympathy. Its... more » telling juxtaposition of the writing careers of the clever and malicious Jaspar Milvain and the honest and struggling Edward Reardon quickly made New Grub Street into a classic work of late Victorian fiction.« less
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Move over Dickens! George Gissing tells a better story and no fairy tale endings. This book is a social history in Victorian England but I believe it is very much an autobiographical portriat of Gissing himself. Also check his other books.