The complete online text of The Emancipated 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...

Throughout her career, Mariah Carey has been a lot of things to a lot of people. But, from her early years as the ear-shattering, all-American princess to her most recent position as the queen of the rumor mill, Carey's overwhelming vocal ability and knack for...

Unidentified assailants seized two foreign oil workers Tuesday in the latest kidnapping in restive southern Nigeria and negotiations were under way for the return of a boatload of Filipinos missing in the area, officials said.An American and a Briton were taken in the oil center...

Each up for eight awards, 2005's biggest success stories will take the stage on February 8 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for the 48th annual awards show. Carey, whose The Emancipation of Mimi helped her clean up at award shows in 2005,...

Gunmen armed with dynamite assaulted a Chevron Corp. tanker in Nigeria's southern oil-producing region early Tuesday, killing a Nigerian sailor and kidnapping an American oil worker and five other foreigners, authorities said.The restive region's main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger...