With Gissing in Italy

Dunne, Brian Boru. Ed(s): Coustillas, Pierre

ISBN 10: 0821412582 / ISBN 13: 9780821412589

Verlag: Ohio University Press, 1999

Editor(s): Coustillas, Pierre. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AB; BGA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 585. Weight in Grams: 476. . 1999. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9780821412589

Inhaltsangabe:

In 1897, at age nineteen, American Brian Ború Dunne was an aspiring journalist, who chanced to meet the Englishman George Gissing at the height of his career as a novelist. He was somewhat awed, but not unduly intimidated, by the renowned writer, and his vigorous personality drew Gissing into many frank and unguarded conversations. Stored away until after Dunne's death, his fully wrought memoirs of these conversations and the description of their meetings are the essence of this finely edited volume.

During their months together in Rome, sometimes in the company of Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells, Dunne was amazed and amused by Gissing's social life among writers and the titled classes, but he also enjoyed their exploration of the city, of cheap cafes and fine restaurants, of music halls and rooming houses and Papal Masses.

With Gissing in Italy is indeed the only portrait we have of the quotidian life, both trivial and important, happy and sad, of George Gissing at this point in his career, observed with the eye of a journalist, by a young man with no other concern than an accurate and lively painting of his own life with an eminent English writer living abroad, freed from the misery of his domestic life.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Paul F. Mattheisen is associate professor of English, SUNY, Binghamton.

Arthur C. Young is professor emeritus of English at Russell Sage College.

Pierre Coustillas is professor of English, University of Lille, France.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: With Gissing in Italy
Verlag: Ohio University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New