The complete online text of A Life's Morning by George Gissing.

George Robert Gissing was a thoroughly earnest and amazingly prolific writer, producing twenty-two novels, many works of nonfiction, and more than a hundred sketches and tales during his twenty-six-year career (the exact number of his stories is still un...

Although he was once best known as the author of a volume of essays, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903), George Gissing is now recognized as one of the important novelists of the late Victorian period. His reputation rests on the long series of...

Although George Gissing would have denied being a book collector and obliquely did so in his semiautobiographical The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903), the last book he published in his lifetime, evidence that he had the turn of mind and habits of...

WATCHING A sunrise is good for the soul, especially now, with the horrors of nature so much in the news. Watching a sunrise over quiet water or dew-dampened land reconnects one with the well-ordered universe and incontrovertible laws of physics. What went down into...

FATAL CRASH Young people must learn importance of good choices Your story about the deaths that occurred in Trenton was heart- achingly detailed, but will you be writing a follow-up article focusing on the role of choice here? The role of illegal...