CHAPTER I
As he waited for his breakfast, never served to time,
Mr. Lashmar drummed upon the window-pane, and seemed
to watch a blackbird lunching with much gusto about
the moist lawn of Alverholme Vi...
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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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Our Friend the Charlatan
George (Robert) Gissing