The complete online text of The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing.

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...

During the final decade of his long career, Matisse set the seal on his life's work through a radically new art form: the paper cut-outs. In response to a suggestion made by the publisher Teriade in 1942 that he should do an illustrated...

Greg Walker The Private Life of Henry VIII The British Film Guide, London & New York: I.B. Tauris 2003 GREG WALKER'S STUDY of Alexander Korda's 1933 masterpiece The Private Life of Henry VIII is a true gem. Walker is a distinguished scholar of...