Article: By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy.(Book Review)

By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by George Gissing First published in 1901. Most recent edition published by Signal, pb, pp159, 12.99 [pounds sterling]

Italy was George Gissing's "land of romance". Setting out from Naples in 1897, he wanted to indulge his "imaginative delight"for the world of the ancient Romans and Greeks. Gissing had a keen interest in social justice--he's best known as the author of novels such as New Grub Street, which realistically portrayed poverty in Victorian Britain--and chose to shun the Rome-Florence-Venice circuit, preferring to gain some experience of rural life while exploring the ruins of the classical past in ...

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