CHAPTER I
The summer day in 1874 which closed the annual session
of Whitelaw College was marked by a special ceremony,
preceding the wonted distribution of academic rewards.
At eleven in the mor...
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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 Victori...
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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-ye...
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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 lifetim...
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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 illu...
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Born in Exile
George (Robert) Gissing
INTERVIEW-Savoy prince says not suing Italy for money
