LADY ON THE WEB

Have finished The Town Traveller. Gissing knows how to write a corker of a melodrama, but it was still unmistakably Gissing. I can't follow all of his plot twists, but I know they're there. I'm always trying to figure out which character represents Gissing, in which aspects. The protagonist Gammon would seem to be the obvious candidate, resembling his creator mostly in his propensity toward very young women.

Next up: The Crown of Life.