Workers in the Dawn, in Two Volumes (Doubleday Doran Series in Literature)
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Item #2322665
First American edition. Half inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel of volume I. Jackets of both volumes soiled. Ink stamp on front paste down endpaper of both volumes.
lv, 374; 436 pp. Two volume set. Author's first published book, originally printed in 1880 but not released in U.S. until this edition. Workers in the Dawn is a novel by George Gissing, which was originally published in three volumes in 1880. It was the first of Gissing's published novels, although he had been working on another prior to this. The work focuses on the unhappy marriage of Arthur Golding, a rising artist from a poor background, and Carrie Mitchell, a prostitute. This plot was partly based on Gissing's negative experiences of marriage to his first wife. It also was designed to serve the function of political polemic, highlighting social issues that Gissing felt strongly about. Reviews of the novel generally recognised some potential in the author, but were critical of Workers in the Dawn. After reading the first known published review in the Athenaeum, Gissing was driven to describe critics as "unprincipled vagabonds".--Wikipedia
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