The complete online text of The Paying Guest 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...

The concept of quality improvement in medical practice is laudable, but the "pay-for-performance" method--in which physicians are financially rewarded for reaching certain goals set by panels of "experts"--is particularly offensive to our professional identity. Are we, like cabbies or waiters, to be...

The concept of quality improvement in medical practice is laudable, but the "pay for performance" method--in which physicians are financially rewarded for reaching certain goals set by panels of "experts"--is particularly offensive to our professional identity. Are we, like cabbies or waiters,...