The Scrupulous Father

George Gissing was an English author considered as as the important representant of the naturalistic genre.


“The Scrupulous Father” is the one of fifteen stories, entered in the collection “The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories”, published in 1906. Together with other stories, “The Scrupulous Father” focuses on a single main character and develops the background and circumstances necessary to understand the person. There are no doubts, that Gissing's short fiction has a clear place in English literary and social history, because it illuminates the psychological and economic currents of the era, so you will certainly derive pleasure, reading well-written, thoughtful, and realistic stories!