By the Ionian Sea Summary
George Gissing

TARANTO Cosenza is on a line of railway which runs northward up the Crati valley, and joins the long seashore line from Taranto to Reggio.  As it was my wish to see the whole of that coast, I had... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more