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,Gettmann, Royal A. (1961). George Gissing and H. G. Wells, Their Friendship and Correspondence. Urbana, IL.: University of Illinois Press. H. G. Wells was asked to write an introduction to Veranilda. Displeased with the piece Wells wrote,Coustillas, Pierre, ed. (2013). George Gissing: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge, p. 435. Gissing's relatives and literary executors then asked Frederic Harrison to write a substitute.Harrison, Frederic (1904). Introduction to Veranilda. London: Archibald Constable Company, pp. v–vii. Well's rejected preface was later published under the title "George Gissing: An Impression".Wells, H.G. (1904). "George Gissing: An Impression," Monthly Review, pp. 160–172.
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,
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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