Will Warburton, by George Gissing
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Will Warburton, by George Gissing
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"[...] "Where? When?" "At Trient ten days ago. I spent three or four days with them. Hasn't Miss Elvan mentioned it?" "I haven't heard from her for a long time," replied Franks. "Well, for more than a week. Did you meet them by chance?" "Quite. I had a vague idea that the Pomfrets and their niece were somewhere in Switzerland." "Vague idea!" cried the artist "Why, I told you all about it, and growled for five or six hours one evening here because I couldn't go with them." "So you did," said Warburton, "but I'm afraid I was thinking of something else, and when I started for the Alps, I had really forgotten all about it. I made up my mind suddenly, you know. We're having a troublesome time in Ailie Street, and it was holiday now or never. By the bye, we shall have to wind up. Sugar[...]".
Will Warburton, by George Gissing - Published on: 2015-03-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .52" w x 6.00" l, .59 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 230 pages
Will Warburton, by George Gissing About the Author English novelist known for his realistic and honest portrayal of the lower middle class. Gissing's work is marked by his keen observation and an eye for detail. In his life he experienced the harshness and cruelty of poverty which he describes in his writings.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Fate has a grudge against the foolish secure By H. Schneider Another kind of Bildungsroman: down the ladder, with dignity. A formerly comfortably wealthy businessman learns about the harshness of realities in the urban jungle.Gissing's last novel, published posthumously, was an odd one for him: it came with a happy end. That was not such an easy achievement, considering that its main story is about bankruptcy and social downgrading, a descent from wealth to near poverty.The title hero WW, an almost too decent man (not to be confused with the villain Warburton from Sense and Sensibility), starts out as a reasonably wealthy partner in a sugar business.The time is 1886. Free trade has all but ruined the British sugar industry. Warburton's partner, whom he had seen as an immaculate commercial master, proposes a sure bet for an alternative investment: they wind up their old firm, collect their remaining funds, and go for the acquisition of a jam business.Anticipating that things would go south, I expected the jam business to be a fraud and the due diligence to be faulty, however something else happens, and that is also not unusual: Warburton's partner gambles away all the investment funds at the financial markets for absolutely certain quick money.WW is nearly bankrupt, and on top of it he has given away his mother's and sister's only source of income. He uses his few remaining means to buy a grocery shop and launches his future in that line. He experiences adjustment trouble with harsh realities of the business world: for his own profitability, he can't be charitable towards his poor customers, nor empathize with his competitors who have large families and drinking wives. Every penny of his own income comes at the expense of somebody else. He is appalled at the struggle.Eventually he will find a new equilibrium on a lower level, including love and happiness.During his decline, some acquaintances from his social circle experience a social rise and decide that WW is not their social match any more.Among the half dozen Gissing novels that I have read now, I would not rank this one highly. The main character is too smooth, too decent. The plot is too `instructive', the tale is told in an often too dry and theoretical language. The uplifting morale is a bit too uplifting. I think I rather stick with his depressions, like in Exile or the Odd Women.Still, what a pity that a decent edition is lacking. The one that I have been reading meets the bare necessities. Its printing errors are easily spotted. The subject matter is not so complicated or specialized that it would require much in terms of explaining notes.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Gissing's Romance of Real Life By Robin Friedman George Gissing's (1857 - 1903) last completed novel "Will Warburton: a Romance of Real Life" was published posthumously in 1904. Frequently overlooked or downplayed among his works, "Will Warburton" shows marked shifts for Gissing. Moving from his characteristic pessimism, Gissing's novel is indeed a romance that ends happily in a successful courtship and marriage between two people much in love. In the book, Gissing's hero moves from the ranks of the upper-middle class to a lower social strata. The novel is set in London against the background of greed, business speculation and financial ruin. Thus it has a disquietingly contemporary feel.As the book opens, Will Warburton, young, open-hearted and generous, is in the business of refining sugar with his improvident and scheming friend Godfrey Sherwood. With the businese experiencing difficulties, Sherwood proposes that the pair cut their losses in sugar refining and become involved instead in the manufacture of jam. Warburton acquires the necessary capital from his aging mother and his sister, who sell a treasured family property to finance the venture. To keep them from penury, Warburton plans on paying his mother and sister a varying share of interest from the profits of the jam business. Alas the business comes to naught. Sherwood quickly loses Warburton's capital, as well as his own, in a stock market speculation. Warburton is ruined.With his small remaining funds and the assistance of a man named Allchief, a brusque individual who tends to engage in fighting when unoccupied with work, Warburton opens a small grocery store under the name of Jollyman. Gissing makes much of Warburton giving up his business dress and wearing instead the apron of a grocer as reflective of his diminution in class. Warburton keeps his new occupation, a distinct step down in his own eyes and in the eyes of others, a secret in order to save his mother and sister from embarrassment. The shop prospers and Warburton is able to pay his mother and sister the promised minimal return on their capital. But Warburton remains ashamed and ambivalent about his new career. He also feels guilty over his secrecy and deception.The novel sets off Warburton's upper class friends with his newly-acquired friends to the detriment, on the whole, of the former. Warburton's story is contrasted with that of a young painter and friend, Norbert Franks, whose efforts Warburton had encouraged at an early stage of Frank's career with loans. Franks had aspired to serious art, but he becomes a portrait painter who achieves great financial success with no artistic distinction. In his poor days, Frank had tried to win the love of a beautiful amateur painter, Rosamund Evan, who accepts his marriage proposal but then jilts him. Frank then courts a poor but talented artist, Bertha Cross. With the seeming end of the relationship between Franks and Rosamund, Warburton cautiously tries to court Rosamund. She is responsive at first but ends the relationship abruptly when she visits the grocery store and sees that Warburton is the proprietor, Jollyman. Rosamund then returns to Franks whom, up until the discovery of Jollyman, she had continued to spurn. Franks is all-too-willing to leave Bertha for the beautiful Rosamund, even though Rosamund had earlier abandoned him. Warburton begins courting Bertha who is able to look to his heart and not to his grocer's apron. She accepts him. Warburton continues his modest life as a grocer with its independence. He becomes free of social cant and open and accepting about his position in life. The married couple, Franks and Rosamund want little to do with their former friend Warburton, and Gissing is emphatic that Warburton is well rid of them.In Gissing's best-known novel, "New Grub Street", which tells of literary life in Victorian London, Gissing draws a portrait of a poor, serious writer, Biffen, who does not write to please the multitudes. Biffen works diligently on a work of social realism that has no chance of achieving popularity, a novel called "Mr Bailey: Grocer". The novel explores the lives of those whom Biffen calls the "ignobly decent". In a climactic scene in "New Grub Street", Biffen rushes into a burning building to save the manuscript of "Mr. Bailey:Grocer" from destruction. "Will Warburton" is Gissing's own "Mr. Bailey: Grocer" with its portrayal of the unglamorous but stolidly honest life of the hero. In its portrait of love and romance, "Will Warburton" also bears resemblances to another earlier Gissing work, the short novel "Eve's Ransom"(1895)in which the young protagonist, Maurice Hilliard, loses the woman he loves to a wealthier man but finds peace and independence for himself.Unfortunately little read today, "Will Warburton" explores Gissing's familiar themes of love relationships, art, and commerce, with a light, humorous touch and, most importantly, a great deal of hope. Gissing ended his career fittingly with this novel. "Will Warburton" deserves to be remembered and read.Robin Friedman
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Coda By disco75 This novel examines the qualities of character that lifted (or sank) persons of the working and monied classes of Victorian England. It is similar in tone to Gissing's "Eve's Ransom" in that it observes how a principled young man might navigate difficult dilemmas. It is similar to that book also because it uses romance among the young adults as a way of forwarding the plot.This was written during Gissing's final months, when he was dying of emphysema. It was published posthumously. The author's struggles with energy are evident in the short chapters and in the somewhat under-developed story. On the other hand, the spare, straight-ahead quality of the novel give it a briskness and tempo missing in the more philosophical novels like *Born In Exile.* Even in these compromised writing conditions, Gising's talent shines bright. I found it difficult to put the book down, especially in the second half.
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