Record Number: 21321
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1880 and 31 Dec 1889
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: probably London
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:22 Nov 1857
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:author
Religion:none
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Drama
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:21321
Source:Michael Collie
Editor:n/a
Title:George Gissing. A Biography
Place of Publication:Folkestone
Date of Publication:1977
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Page:85
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Michael Collie, George Gissing. A Biography, (Folkestone, 1977), p. 85, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21321, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
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