CHAPTER 1
The sea-wind in his hair, his eyes agleam with the
fresh memory of Alpine snows, Will Warburton sprang
out of the cab, paid the driver a double fare, flung
on to his shoulder a heavy bag and...
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Although he was once best known as the author of a volume of essays, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903), George Gissing is now recognized as one of the important novelists of the late Victori...
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George Robert Gissing was a thoroughly earnest and amazingly prolific writer, producing twenty-two novels, many works of nonfiction, and more than a hundred sketches and tales during his twenty-six-ye...
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Although George Gissing would have denied being a book collector and obliquely did so in his semiautobiographical The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903), the last book he published in his lifetim...
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Will Warburton
George (Robert) Gissing