Veranilda Explained

Veranilda
Author:	George Gissing
Country:	England
Language:	English
Publisher:	Archibald Constable
Release Date:	1904
Pages:	348

Veranilda: A Romance is a posthumous novel by English author George Gissing. The book was left incomplete at the time of Gissing's death (28 December 1903) and it was first published in 1904 by Archibald Constable and Company.

Publication

As an old friend of Gissing,^[1] H. G. Wells was asked to write an introduction to Veranilda. Displeased with the piece Wells wrote,^[2] Gissing's relatives and literary executors then asked Frederic Harrison to write a substitute.^[3] Well's rejected preface was later published under the title "George Gissing: An Impression".^[4]

Other editions

• Veranilda. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1905.
• Veranilda. London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1905.
• Veranilda. London: Oxford University Press, 1929.
• Veranilda. New York: AMS Press, 1968.
• Veranilda. Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1987, edited by Pierre Coustillas;
• Veranilda. Grayswood, Surrey: Grayswood Press, 2022, edited with an introduction by Markus Neacey,

Further reading

• Barry, William (1904). "Mr. Gissing's Last Book," The Bookman, Vol. XXVII, No. 158, p. 81.
• Borg, Jacob (2001). "Gissing and Ancient Rome." In: A Garland for Gissing. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 225–234.
• Faries, Randolph (1923). "Novels Written by Authors Who Have Portrayed Roman Life from an Esthetic Viewpoint." In: Ancient Rome in the English Novel. Philadelphia: Lyon & Armor, pp. 112–120.
• Gissing, Alfred G. (1937). "Gissing's Unfinished Romance," National Review, Vol. CVIII, pp. 82–91.
• Harrison, Frederic (1911). Autobiographical Memories, Vol. II. London: Macmillan & Co.

External links

• Veranilda, at Internet Archive
• Veranilda, at Project Gutenberg

Notes and References

1. Gettmann, Royal A. (1961). George Gissing and H. G. Wells, Their Friendship and Correspondence. Urbana, IL.: University of Illinois Press.
2. Coustillas, Pierre, ed. (2013). George Gissing: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge, p. 435.
3. Harrison, Frederic (1904). Introduction to Veranilda. London: Archibald Constable Company, pp. v–vii.
4. Wells, H.G. (1904). "George Gissing: An Impression," Monthly Review, pp. 160–172.