The complete online text of In the Year of Jubilee 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...

ROBERT NORTH, S.J., The Biblical Jubilee, After Fifty Years (AnBib 145; Rome: Biblical Institute, 2000). Pp. 167. Paper Lit. 24.000, $14. North offers this slim volume not as a second edition of his Sociology of the Biblical Jubilee (AnBib 4; Rome: Biblical Institute,...

INTERPRETATIONS OF the Jubilee Year (Leviticus 25) have tended to read it through the lens of various historical issues: how it fits into the legal-historical context of the ancient Near East,1 its literary-historical relationship to other biblical sources,2 and the historical background of ancient...