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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
George Gissing
Book Overview:
This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death. There is very little in the way of plot, but a great deal of quiet musing about art, nature, society, and the things that make life worth living. Although this is a work of fiction, there are clear parallels between the narrator's life and Gissing's own life. This leads many commenters to view it as semi-autobiographical.
This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death. There is very little in the way of plot, but a great deal of quiet musing about art, nature, society, and the things that make life worth living. Although this is a work of fiction, there are clear parallels between the narrator's life and Gissing's own life. This leads many commenters to view it as semi-autobiographical.
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Scholarship in the high sense was denied me, and now it is too late. Yet here am I gloating over Pausanias, and promising myself to read every word of him. Who that has any tincture of old letters would not like to read Pausanias, instead of mere quotations from him and references to him? Here are the volumes of Dahn’s Die Könige der Germanen: who would not like to know all he can about the Teutonic conquerors of Rome? And so on, and so on. To the end I shall be reading—and forgetting. Ah, that’s the worst of it! Had I at command all the knowledge I have at any time possessed, I might call myself a learned man. Nothing surely is so bad for the memory as long-enduring worry, agitation, fear. . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
This is definitely fiction, but the line between George Gissing and his Henry Ryecroft is perhaps a bit blurred. Ryecroft was a writer, but is now retired, having received an unexpected small inheritance. Gissing opens the volume with a preface outlining how, upon the death of his friend Ryecroft, h
Gissing, George - Private Papers Of Henry Ryecroft
One of my battered veterans, purchased decades earlier.
My edition is a leatherbound Modern Library from the 1920’s.
I find it altogether fitting for the text.
Ryecroft would be Gissing’s alter ego, faring better than the author. Ryecroft receives an un
This book is a homage to Devon and kind of a counterfactual life that Gissing might have lived in a parallel world.Gissing is Ryecroft in another world. Enjoying solitude in charming Devon away from all bustle of city life. Charming book. Good nuggets of interesting ideas here and there, like differ
A difficult novel to interpret beyond the limits of autobiography – those few sections that diverge in character are so meagre as remark little importance; and other sections only succeed in the knowledge of their origin. The many, many consecutive chapters arguing (vigorously) that English food is
Actually ***1/2: someone remembering Trollope can't write worse than that. Still I have to understand what he finds in British Cusine!!!!
This is an interesting read on many levels. Is it a epistolary recap of the aging George Gissing? is it purely a work of fiction by Gissing? or is a combination of both, akin to Goethe's "Young Werther"?
Gissing's other novel "New Grub Street" (on my to-read list) was not as popular as this work. So
Henry Ryecroft
"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. The book appeared in the year of Gissing's death. Gissing lived a difficult life which became the basis