The complete online text of The Crown of Life 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...

42% Stake In Crown Life To Be Sold Looking for cash to enhance its life company's image, Crownx Inc. will sell a 42 percent in Crown Life Ins. Co. for $250 million to the Haro Financial Corp. of Regina, Saskatchewan. The...

Canada Life Assurance, Canada's fourth largest insurance company, said last week that it plans to acquire the majority of Crown Life Insurance Company's business operations. The acquisition of a large chunk of the Saskatchewan-based company, for an undisclosed amount, will increase Canada...