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By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy

Author
George Gissing
Read by
Amara Wrenn
Language
English
Length
3 hours 58 minutes
ISBN
9781802566574
Published
31 May 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
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Gissing south of Rome: coasts, ruins, inns, and a scholar’s eye on a poor, brilliant shore. By the Ionian Sea is a ramble that keeps stopping for history — Magna Graecia under the modern dust. Travel prose with a classicist’s hunger and a novelist’s pity. Calabria without the postcard. Ruins, malaria talk, a train, a hunger for Greek names on Italian dirt. Gissing travels as a man who has been poor, and it shows. Taranto, Cotrone — the Greek names he came south to taste. Read in English, unabridged.

Author

George Gissing (1857–1903) was the most unflinching realist of late Victorian England — a novelist who wrote what others preferred not to see. In New Grub Street he exposed the bitter economics of literary life: talent ground down by poverty, compromise, and the market. The Nether World, Born in Exile, and The Odd Women extended that clear-eyed vision to slum existence, intellectual exile, and the precarious lives of unmarried women.

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