# New Grub Street — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for New Grub Street by George Gissing.

- [A Man of His Day](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/i-a-man-of-his-day.md): Jasper Milvain discusses the literary marketplace with his sisters, advocating for writing as a trade rather than an art. He criticizes his friend Edwin Reardon for his impractical artistic ideals and predicts his financ
- [The House of Yule](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/ii-the-house-of-yule.md): Jasper Milvain and his family discuss his sighting of Alfred Yule and his daughter Marian. Miss Harrow visits and invites the Milvains to meet the Yules. Jasper and his sisters visit the Yule household, where Jasper meet
- [Holiday](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/iii-holiday.md): Jasper Milvain spends his holiday with his mother and sisters in Wattleborough. He meets Marian Yule and her father Alfred, and later visits them to say goodbye before returning to London. The chapter explores the social
- [An Author and His Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/iv-an-author-and-his-wife.md): Edwin Reardon and his wife Amy engage in a tense conversation about his failing writing career and their financial struggles. Reardon laments his inability to produce marketable work, while Amy urges him to write for mon
- [The Way Hither](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/v-the-way-hither.md): This chapter provides a detailed backstory of Edwin Reardon's life, from his childhood in Hereford to his struggles as a struggling writer in London. It recounts his inheritance, his years of poverty in a garret, his eve

> 32 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=new_grub_street_se_1290kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [The Practical Friend](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/vi-the-practical-friend.md)
- [Marian's Home](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/vii-marian-s-home.md)
- [To the Winning Side](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/viii-to-the-winning-side.md)
- [IX: Invita Minerva](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/ix-invita-minerva.md)
- [X: The Friends of the Family](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/x-the-friends-of-the-family.md)
- [Respite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xi-respite.md)
- [Work Without Hope](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xii-work-without-hope.md)
- [A Warning](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xiii-a-warning.md)
- [Recruits](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xiv-recruits.md)
- [XV: The Last Resource](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xv-the-last-resource.md)
- [Rejection](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xvi-rejection.md)
- [XVII: The Parting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xvii-the-parting.md)
- [The Old Home](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xviii-the-old-home.md)
- [The Past Revived](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xix-the-past-revived.md)
- [XX: The End of Waiting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xx-the-end-of-waiting.md)
- [Mr. Yule Leaves Town](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxi-mr-yule-leaves-town.md)
- [XXII: The Legatees](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxii-the-legatees.md)
- [A Proposed Investment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxiii-a-proposed-investment.md)
- [XXIV: Jasper’s Magnanimity](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxiv-jasper-s-magnanimity.md)
- [XXV: A Fruitless Meeting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxv-a-fruitless-meeting.md)
- [Married Woman's Property](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxvi-married-woman-s-property.md)
- [XXVII: The Lonely Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxvii-the-lonely-man.md)
- [Interim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxviii-interim.md)
- [XXIX: Catastrophe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxix-catastrophe.md)
- [XXX: Waiting on Destiny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxx-waiting-on-destiny.md)
- [A Rescue and a Summons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxxi-a-rescue-and-a-summons.md)
- [XXXII: Reardon Becomes Practical](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxxii-reardon-becomes-practical.md)
- [XXXIII: The Sunny Way](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxxiii-the-sunny-way.md)
- [A Check](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxxiv-a-check.md)
- [Fever and Rest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxxv-fever-and-rest.md)
- [XXXVI: Jasper's Delicate Case](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxxvi-jasper-s-delicate-case.md)
- [XXXVII: Rewards](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_grub_street_se/chapters/xxxvii-rewards.md)

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