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This ninth volume concludes the widely-acclaimed edition of The Collected Letters of George Gissing, which not only renders obsolete all other collections and selections of his letters, but also contains a considerable quantity of hitherto unpublished or inaccessible materials. If Gissing was a rather less assiduous letter-writer in 1902 and 1903, largely owing to the deterioration of his health, he nonetheless remained in touch with a number of major writers of the period such as Wells, Conrad, and Hardy, whose last letter to him, unavailable until now to biographers and editors, are printed here. During the last eighteen months of his life, which he spent with Gabrielle Fleury in Southern France, first at Ciboure on the Atlantic coast and then farther inland in the small Basque village of Ispoure, Gissing wrote his last novel of modern life, Will Warburton, and at last turned to the historical narrative of sixth-century Romans and Goths, Veranilda, for which he had been collecting material since the mid-nineties. But he was not to complete it, and five chapters remained unwritten. Even more than in previous volumes, the illustrations here help one to visualize the world Gissing l

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