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-year career (the exact number of his stories is still un...
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 Victorian period. His reputation rests on the long series of...
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 lifetime, evidence that he had the turn of mind and habits of...
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Nether World 09/03/2007: 421 words, approx. 1 pages
Nether World The Met embraces Rembrandt and his Dutch peers as only it can. THE METROPOLITAN Museum of Art, a masterpiece of the Gilded Age, owes its preeminence-and institutional ambition-to the great collectors of that period. And there was nothing that a wealthy...
Bill Amundson Denver Rocky Mountain News 04-27-2001 KAUFMAN'S NETHER WORLD Was This Man A Genius? Talks With Andy Kaufman. By Julie Hecht. Random House, 224 pages, $23.95. Grade: B- The late conceptual comic / performance artist Andy Kaufman...
