The complete online text of Our Friend the Charlatan 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...

Association executives generally are not cast as the heroes in popular books or movies. Most people are hard-pressed to even figure out what an association executive is or does, let alone identify with them in literature or cinema. So it came as a...

RICK KOGAN, CHICAGO TRIBUNE The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 02-24-2008 REVIEW: CHARLATAN By RICK KOGAN, CHICAGO TRIBUNE Date: 02-24-2008, Sunday Section: BETTER LIVING Edtion: All Editions * CHARLATAN: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of...