TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gissing,George
TI  - The Paying Guest
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
KW  - English fiction -- 19th century
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paying_Guest; Release date is 2003-07-01; Produced by Charles Aldarondo.  HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Paying Guest" by George Gissing is a satirical novella published in 1895. When the middle-class Mumford family invites a lodger into their suburban London home to supplement their income, they expect a simple arrangement. Instead, Louise Derrick—poorly educated, bad-tempered, and pursued by two rival suitors—disrupts their peaceful existence. Written in an unusually comic tone for Gissing, this sharp social satire explores the tensions that arise when financial necessity collides with domestic tranquility, leading to jealousy, romantic chaos, and unexpected disaster. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4298
ER  -