A Life's Morning

This is to let you all know that I've plowed through, not single-handedly, another Audiobook recording; it's titled "A Life's Morning" by George Gissing, published in 1888.  It can be downloaded here for free from Librivox.  I joined in the group recording effort in May 2013 and recorded 18 of its 33 sections.  It was hard-going at times, but boy I'm glad it's finally done.

I did not know of this late 19th century British author before I started recording for this project.  Though priding myself on having read a lot of the English literary classics from 18th century to early modern era, I've been finding out, to my amazement, the names of so many writers whom I've never heard of, simply by randomly browsing the free (no longer copyrighted) titles available on Project Gutenberg.  Like so many men and women of letters in various time and various quarters of the globe who have been overshadowed by their greater contemporaries, Gissing in his brief existence left a considerable literary production.  Whether his novels have any significant worth in the opinion of literary critics, they provide a window onto the life and preoccupations of the people of his time, which though very unlike our own, we can still thoroughly enter into on the basis of our shared human experience.