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...
At first blush, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia could pass easily for a moderate Republican congressman. Chunky, polished and gleaming with good health at 51, he is a former army ski champion with three handsome sons, a second wife, firm handshake,...
"And who's going to start a revolution in Russia? Surely not Herr Bronstein sipping cafe au lait over at the Cafe Central!" With those possibly apocryphal words, the Austrian foreign minister of the time is alleged to have scoffed at the news of the...
ROME, Nov 28 (Reuters) - The grandson of Italy's last king wants to make something clear to his unhappy, would-be subjects: he's not suing Italy for the money. Emanuele Filiberto, of the once illustrious House of Savoy, says he is pained by his portrayals...
