The complete online text of The Town Traveller 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...

Byline: Thomas Walter, THE WASHINGTON TIMES IN TOWN HOLIDAY The Park Hyatt Washington is celebrating summer's end with a Labor Day at the Park package for area residents and out-of-town guests. The package includes accommodations in a Park deluxe room,...

The question isn't how many Americans travel abroad, insists Rick Steves, it's how many travel abroad thoughtfully. The popular public TV and radio travel show host comes to town this week as part of the Junior League of Dayton's Town Hall lecture series....