Will Warburton comes home from the Alps cheerful and comfortably off, a gentleman partner in a sugar refinery. When a friend’s speculation wipes out his money and his family’s, he quietly takes over a grocer’s shop under another name rather than lose them their income, and must hide his new trade from the painter Franks, the Cross ladies and the woman he hopes to marry.
Gissing’s last completed novel, an unexpectedly warm comedy about class, money and honest work. Download the free EPUB.