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...

Sandra L. Whittington's letter {June 22} questioning Abraham Lincoln's sobriquet as the Great Emancipator reminds me of the axiom that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. For if Lincoln did not free the slaves, who did? Lincoln's speeches and writings show a...

JIM BECKERMAN, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-11-2000 EMANCIPATED TRAILBLAZERS By JIM BECKERMAN, Staff Writer Date: 06-11-2000, Sunday Section: YOUR TIME Edition: All Editions -- Sunday DARK MIDNIGHT WHEN I RISE: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the...

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...