The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
Автор:
George GissingЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-04-29Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
63
Description
Henry Ryecroft is an older English man of letters who, upon inheriting a small legacy, retires to a small cottage in the countryside. There he writes a diary, his “private papers,” which George Gissing purports to have edited and published in this volume.
In reality Ryecroft is a fictional character, and his diary is a semi-autobiographical account of Gissing’s own career as an author and literary critic, and of his personal philosophical musings. His love of nature, the English landscape, and the English national character is evident throughout, though Gissing, in his affection for the rural England of the past, doesn’t shy away from criticizing contemporary...
