Part 1 General Studies; Chapter 1 Who Knows George Gissing?, Russell Kirk; Chapter 2 George Gissing, Humanist, Stanley Alden; Chapter 3 Gissing as a Portrayer of Society, Ruth Capers McKay; Chapter 4 The Permanent Stranger; Chapter 5 George Gissing, George Orwell; Chapter 6 Gissing's Heroines; Chapter 7 Division of Purpose in George Gissing, Jacob Korg; Part 2 Special Influences; Chapter 8 Influence of the Classics on Gissing’s Novels of Modern Life, Samuel Vogt Gapp; Chapter 9 Gissing, Turgenev and Dostoyevsky, Gilbert Phelps; Chapter 10 Gissing and Schopenhauer, C. J. Francis; Part 3 Some Views on the Major Works; Chapter 11 George Gissing: Poet of Fatigue, Irving Howe; Chapter 12 'Grub Street', V. S. Pritchett; Chapter 13 The Spiritual Theme of Born in Exile, Jacob Korg; Chapter 14 A Novelist of the Hour, Greenough White; Chapter 15 Definition as Structure in The Ryecroft Papers, Jackson I. Cope; Chapter 16 The Main Source of The Ryecroft Papers, Jacob Korg;