Stack all new and fresh, composed of the fast-selling standard books only — no old plugs or unsalable books whatever.

The moment in the draughty church at smokefall

The arsonists left notes at two of the sites, one of which denounced the “North Atlantic Terrorist Organization” and asserted that “the fake Albanian refugee crisis was manufactured by the International Jewsmedia to justify the terrorizing, the bestial bombing of our Yugoslavia back into the dark ages.”

Gissing is never more of a miserabilist than when trying to be light-hearted.