Will Warburton
 Title page of the first edition | |
| Author | George Gissing |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Archibald Constable & Co. |
Publication date | 1905 |
| Publication place | England |
| Pages | 333 |
Will Warburton: A Romance of Real Life was George Gissing's last novel. It was published in 1905, two years after Gissing's death.
Plot summary
Will Warburton is a young gentleman of means, a man of commerce, who, losing everything in speculation, is forced into the life of a grocer,[1] a thing he finds, at first, enormously tragic.
Will keeps his fate secret from his friends and his family and lives a life of humiliation and privation. It is only when the woman with whom he is falling in love discovers he is a grocer, and throws him over, that Will realizes that there is no shame in being a grocer.
Notes
- ^ Adcock, A. St. John (1905). "Gissing's Last Novel," The Bookman, Vol. XXVIII, No. 167, p. 162.
Further reading
- Halperin, John (1985). Introduction to Will Warburton. London: Hogarth Press.
- Partridge, Colin (1981). Introduction to Will Warburton. Brighton, Sussex: The Harvester Press.
External links
- Will Warburton, at Internet Archive
- Will Warburton, at Project Gutenberg
Will Warburton public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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Novels by George Gissing
- Workers in the Dawn (1880)
- The Unclassed (1884)
- Isabel Clarendon (1885)
- Demos (1886)
- Thyrza (1887)
- A Life's Morning (1888)
- The Nether World (1889)
- The Emancipated (1890)
- New Grub Street (1891)
- Denzil Quarrier (1892)
- Born in Exile (1892)
- The Odd Women (1893)
- In the Year of Jubilee (1894)
- Eve's Ransom (1895)
- The Paying Guest (1895)
- Sleeping Fires (1895)
- The Whirlpool (1897)
- The Town Traveller (1898)
- The Crown of Life (1899)
- Our Friend the Charlatan (1901)
- The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)
- Veranilda (1904)
- Will Warburton (1905)
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