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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Author
George Gissing
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
158 pages
ISBN
9781911263456
Published
15 April 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • aging
  • passage of time
  • meaning and purpose
  • retired clerk
  • journal entries
  • letters
  • disillusionment
  • isolation
  • loneliness
  • despair

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A writer, retired, with a modest fire and a head full of books. Gissing’s Henry Ryecroft papers are seasons, walks, and the bill for a life in letters. Commerce versus the desk; comfort earned late. Quiet, exact, and unexpectedly happy. Spring to winter in a rented quiet. He counts books, meals, the luck of not writing for the papers anymore. A late Gissing peace, earned, and slightly astonished at itself. A year of tea, Latin, and not writing for the papers.

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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