The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

A writer, retired, with a modest fire and a head full of books. Gissing's Henry Ryecroft papers are seasons, walks, and the bill for a life in letters. Commerce versus the desk; comfort earned late. Quiet, exact, and unexpectedly happy. Spring to winter in a rented quiet. He counts books, meals, the luck of not writing for the papers anymore. A late Gissing peace, earned, and slightly astonished at itself. A year of tea, Latin, and not writing for the papers. Read in English, unabridged.