A green-gray cloth flexicover book in very good condition, all pages clean, clear and intact.
商品描述
"The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft" (1903) was once the most widely-read work of the English novelist George Gissing (1857-1903). It was Gissing's own favorite among his works. At the age of 50, Ryecroft received an unexpected testamentary gift which enabled him to leave London and retire to a modest cottage in Exeter accompanied only by an elderly woman domestic. Ryecroft enjoyed a few years of peace and contentment in the country before dying of a heart ailment. Then, the story goes, the narrator went through Ryecroft's papers and found a diary of his observations and meditations which the narrator edited, organized, and published as Ryecroft's "Private Papers." The body of the work is organized into four chapters, titled "Spring", "Summer", "Autumn" and "Winter" of Ryecroft's meditations and thoughts. Each of these chapters is, in turn, organized into a number of short chapters, some interconnected and some rambling and discrete.
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