The complete online text of The Nether World 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...

Let me tell you about the harsh reality of AIDS in my Logan Circle neighborhood in Northwest Washington. One familiar sight is a young black woman who carries her syringe in an eyeglass case that she holds in one hand while raising her...

CHRISTOPHER KILBOURNE, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 02-10-1994 CASES SHUNTED TO A NETHER WORLD -- IN BASEMENTS, IN BACK CORNERS, TRYING FOR JUSTICE By CHRISTOPHER KILBOURNE, Staff Writer Date: 02-10-1994, Thursday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star...