With Gissing in ItalyA candid portrait of one of Englands most celebrated authors. In 1897, at age nineteen, American Brian Bor Dunne was an aspiring journalist, who chanced to meet the Englishman George Gissing at the height of his career as a novelist. He was somewhat awed, but not unduly intimidated, by the renowned writer, and his vigorous personality drew Gissing into many frank and unguarded conversations. Stored away until after Dunnes death, his fully wrought