id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-960 George Gissing - Wikipedia .html text/html 4974 695 77 In 1892 he befriended and was influenced in his work by a fellow writer, George Meredith.[23] In the 1890s Gissing lived more comfortably on his earnings, but his health suffered, which limited the time he spent in London.[24] Novels from the period include Born in Exile (1892), The Odd Women (1893), In the Year of Jubilee (1894) and The Whirlpool (1897). By the end of the century, critics placed him with Thomas Hardy and George Meredith as one of three leading novelists in England.[1] Sir William Robertson Nicoll called him "one of the most original, daring and conscientious workers in fiction".[34] Chesterton saw in him the "soundest of the Dickens critics, a man of genius".[35] George Orwell admired him and in a 1943 Tribune article called him "perhaps the best novelist England has produced," believing his masterpieces were the "three novels, The Odd Women, Demos, and New Grub Street, and his book on Dickens. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-960.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-960.txt