George Gissing's finest short stories, available in one volume.
Tales of comedy as well as of tragedy, of loves rekindled, of loyalty and friendship, or falls from grace and social unease, of the small ironies of life, arrogant and timid men, victims of good and ill fortune - together, Gissing's short stories paint a remarkably honest and perceptive portrait of life in nineteenth-century Britain, revealing him as equal to Maupassant and Chekhov.
This volume includes 'Lou and Liz', 'The Day of Silence', 'A Poor Gentleman', 'Fleet-Footed Hester', 'A Freak of Nature' and 'Humplebee'.
