That character's wife tells her friend Edith that she cannot accept any more invitations for visits because of her husband's continual struggles, which force him to take a job as a clerk before dying from poor lungs.
In its chapter "Invita Minerva," one character reads a passage where Odysseus tells Nausicaa about seeing a palm-tree shoot up in Delos. Later on, that character tells Harold Biffen that he has sold his copy of Wunder's translation of Sophocles for money. That character's wife tells her friend Edith that she cannot accept any more invitations for visits because of her husband's continual struggles, which force him to take a job as a clerk before dying from poor lungs. Meanwhile, Dora Milvain, who weds Mr. Whelpdale, begins to write stories for children, thanks to the encouragement of another writer, whose rejection by Marian Yule leads to his marriage to Amy Reardon. Contrasting the lives of authors Edwin Reardon and Jasper Milvain, FTP, name this novel by George Gissing.
In its chapter "Invita Minerva," one character reads a passage where Odysseus tells Nausicaa about seeing a palm-tree shoot up in Delos.
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