A poor schoolteacher decides to spend the summer vacation at a remote country inn, where he falls gradually in love with not only the tavern’s way of life, but also the landlord’s daughter, the lovely Miss Fouracres. Meanwhile the landlord is sinking into drink and despair, driven by his obsession over an incident at a hotel he ran several years ago … an incident which now threatens to raise its ugly head again.
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George Robert Gissing (1857–1903) was a popular English novelist and short story writer who also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life.
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany and a narrator of audiobooks.