The complete online text of Demos 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...

Six minutes is all that each of 69 startups get to impress journalists, venture capitalists and technology mavens. If speakers run over, the music starts, the organizer steps on stage and the microphone goes off.At this week's DEMOfall 2007 conference, companies will pay $18,500 apiece...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers made a 60-watt light bulb glow by sending it energy wirelessly _ from a device 7 feet away _ potentially heralding a future in which cell phones and other gadgets get juice without having to be plugged in.The breakthrough, disclosed...

Parachutes descended slowly in the sky as Colombian Army soldiers on the ground crept toward a makeshift enemy encampment. Shots rang out, and helicopters buzzed the compound.Defense Secretary Robert Gates, seated with other U.S. and Colombian military leaders, watched Wednesday as the military demonstration of...

So this is what all the trouble was about. Airbus' A380 _ the world's largest passenger plane _ has had a two-year production delay. But a trip on the first flight open to the media demonstrated why all but one customer, a cargo carrier, think...