Friday, December 22, 2023
Growing Weary of Modern Civilization
Selections Autobiographical and Imaginative from the Works of George Gissing, with Biographical and Critical Notes by His Son (London: Jonathan Cape, 1929), pp. 244-245:
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My father was growing weary of modern civilization with all its problems and was inclined to dwell more and more upon the thought of ancient Rome, which had always taken first place in his imagination...
