CHAPTER I
Stanbury Hill, remote but two hours’ walk from
a region blasted with mine and factory and furnace,
shelters with its western slope a fair green valley,
a land of meadows and orchard, u...
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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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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 micro...
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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 an...
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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 Robe...
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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 wh...
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The military-backed government imposed an indefinite curfew in six major cities Wednesday, clearing the streets and temporarily shutting down cell phones in a bid to quell three days of unrest by s...
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Athens (dpa) - Greek protestors burned several cars in central
Athens during a student protest against a government draft bill to
reform higher education Wednesday, local me...
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Berlin (dpa) - With tension rising between German leftists and
authorities over policing at next month's G8 summit on the Baltic
coast, a senior Berlin official defended Wed...
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will deport to Spain 10
Catalan women who took part in a dissident protest for the
release of political prisoners, a Spanish diplomat said
Monday. "The Cuban Foreign Minist...
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Maputo (dpa) - Mozambique's government announced it would flood
the capital Maputo with police and security forces to "smash" further
protests over a hike in bus fees after ...
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A neurosurgeon at the renowned Cleveland Clinic used a dog with an induced brain aneurysm to demonstrate a medical device to salespeople, the Clinic said Thursday.The surgeon, who was not immediate...
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Demos
George (Robert) Gissing
Technology startups set for DEMO show
