Veranilda

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.

Veranilda

Title page of the first edition.
Author	George Gissing
Language	English
Publisher	Archibald Constable
Publication date	1904
Publication place	England
Pages	348

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; ISBN 0-7108-0538-1
• Veranilda. Grayswood, Surrey: Grayswood Press, 2022, edited with an introduction by Markus Neacey, ISBN 978-1-7396203-1-8

Notes

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.

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