Social Llife & Customs Books
The Crown of Life
George GissingAmid the throng of suburban arrivals volleyed forth from Waterloo Station on a May morning in the year '86, moved a slim, dark, absent-looking young man of one-and-twenty, whose name was Piers Otway. ..
Born in Exile
George GissingThe summer day in 1874 which closed the annual session of Whitelaw College was marked by a special ceremony, preceding the wonted distribution of academic rewards. At eleven in the morning (just as a ..
In Wicklow and West Kerry
J. M. SyngeSome features of County Wicklow, such as the position of the principal workhouses and holiday places on either side of the coach road from Arklow to Bray, have made this district a favourite with the ..
My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph
Charlotte M. YongeIdeas have a tyrannous power of insisting on being worked out, even when one fears they may be leading in a track already worthily preoccupied. But the Hercules myth did not seem to me to be like one ..
Marie; a story of Russian love
Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinAlexander Pushkin, the most distinguished poet of Russia, was born at Saint Petersburg, 1799. When only twenty-one years of age he entered the civil service in the department of foreign affairs. Lord ..
Demos - A Story of English Socialism
George Gissing"Richard Mutimer is delighted to inherit a large fortune. As a socialist, he means to use it well: he will open a factory in which workers would be treated well, he will advance his party's causes thr..
The Town Traveller
George GissingMrs. Bubb, the landlady, was frying some sausages for her first-floor lodgers; as usual at this hour she wore (presumably over some invisible clothing) a large shawl and a petticoat, her thin hair, bl..
Will Warburton
George GissingWill Warburton: A Romance of Real Life was George Gissing's last novel. It was published in 1905, two years after Gissing's death. Will Warburton is a young gentleman of means, a man of commerce, who,..