A character in this novel who is obsessed with capturing the "ignobly decent" fights his way through a house fire to retrieve the manuscript of his novel Mr Bailey, Grocer.
A character in this novel who is obsessed with capturing the "ignobly decent" fights his way through a house fire to retrieve the manuscript of his novel Mr Bailey, Grocer. Another character in this novel maintains a long-running grudge against Clement Fadge, who gives the protagonist his first break at The Current. Harold Biffen commits suicide in this novel after an encounter in which Mr. Whelpdale reveals his engagement to Dora, the protagonist's sister. That protagonist breaks his engagement with Marian Yule after her father Alfred goes blind, leaving her poor; later, the protagonist marries Amy, the widow of his artistically-uncompromising foil Edwin Reardon. For 10 points, name this novel about the literary journalist Jasper Milvain set in the19th-century home of hack writers in London, the most famous novel by George Gissing. 
A character in this novel who is obsessed with capturing the "ignobly decent" fights his way through a house fire to retrieve the manuscript of his novel Mr Bailey, Grocer.
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