And finally...

Nov 22, 2007 22:20

I'd wish George Gissing* a happy 150th birthday, but can't really feel that he was into the concept of happy birthdays.
*Stil have a pile of his novels in the really-must-re-read-sometime pile.

novel, anniversaries, victorians, litfic, gissing

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oursin November 23 2007, 11:50:12 UTC
Cool!

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oursin November 23 2007, 11:49:10 UTC
I also remember The Town Traveller - I think it was - as being successful almost farcical comedy. And for someone who had such problems with women in his own life, he did pretty good female characters.

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