With Gissing in Italy: The Memoirs of Brian Bor� Dunne - Hardcover

Paul F. Mattheisen; Arthur C. Young; Pierre Coustillas

9780821412589: With Gissing in Italy: The Memoirs of Brian Bor� Dunne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821412582 ISBN 13: 9780821412589

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 1999

In 1897, at age nineteen, American Brian Boru 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.

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Records the five months that aspiring American journalist Dunne spent with the English novelist George Gissing in Italy in 1897. In addition, the volume contains some other of Donne's writing, including a self-written interview with Mark Twain that has not been published since its newspaper appearance in 1905. The texts are extensively annotated. A

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