Will Warburton: A Romance of Real Life was George Gissing's last novel. It was published in 1905, two years after Gissing's death.

Will Warburton
Title page of the first edition
AuthorGeorge Gissing
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherArchibald Constable & Co.
Publication date
1905
Publication placeEngland
Pages333

Plot summary

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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

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  1. ^ Adcock, A. St. John (1905). "Gissing's Last Novel," The Bookman, Vol. XXVIII, No. 167, p. 162.

Further reading

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  • Halperin, John (1985). Introduction to Will Warburton. London: Hogarth Press.
  • Partridge, Colin (1981). Introduction to Will Warburton. Brighton, Sussex: The Harvester Press.
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