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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
The name of Henry Ryecroft never became familiar to what is called the reading public. A year ago obituary paragraphs in the literary papers gave such account of him as was thought needful: the date and place of his birth, the names of certain books he had written, an allusion to his work in the periodicals, the manner of his death. At the time it sufficed.

New Grub Street
Yet the face was not of distinctly feminine type; with short hair and appropriate clothing, she would have passed unquestioned as a handsome boy of seventeen, a spirited boy too, and one much in the habit of giving orders to inferiors.

The Crown Of Life
A window hung with engravings, mostly after pictures of the day; some of them very large, and attractive to a passing glance. One or two admirable landscapes offered solace to the street-wearied imagination, but upon these Piers Otway did not fix his eye; it was drawn irresistibly to the faces and forms of beautiful women set forth with varied allurement.

Demos
At its foot lies the village of Wanley. The opposite side of the hollow is clad with native wood, skirting for more than a mile the bank of a shallow stream, a tributary of the Severn. Wanley consists in the main of one long street; the houses are stone-built, with mullioned windows, here and there showing a picturesque gable or a quaint old chimney.

Denzil Quarrier
A sound from the lower part of the house checked her returning steps; some one was rapping at the door down in the area. It happened that she was to-day without a servant; she must needs descend into the kitchen herself and answer the summons. When the nether regions were illumined and the door thrown open, Lilian beheld a familiar figure, that of a scraggy and wretchedly clad woman with a moaning infant in her arms.

Eve's Ransom
Of the waiting travellers, two kept apart from the rest, pacing this way and that, but independently of each other. They were men of dissimilar appearance; the one comfortably and expensively dressed, his age about fifty, his visage bearing the stamp of commerce; the other, younger by more than twenty years, habited in a way which made it; difficult to as certain his social standing, and looking about him with eyes suggestive of anything but prudence or content.

Our Friend the Charlatan
In the afternoon, he had to visit a dying man, an intelligent shopkeeper, who, while accepting the visit as a proof of kindness, altogether refused spiritual comfort, and would speak of nothing but the future of his children. Straightway Mr. Lashmar became the practical consoler, lavish of kindly forethought. Only when he came forth did he ask himself whether he could possibly fulfil half of what he had undertaken.

The Nether World
In the troubled twilight of a March evening ten years ago, an old man, whose equipment and bearing suggested that he was fresh from travel, walked slowly across Clerkenwell Green, and by the graveyard of St. James's Church stood for a moment looking about him.

The Odd Women
It was the outcome of a long and intimate conversation. Alice Madden, aged nineteen, a plain, shy, gentle-mannered girl, short of stature, and in movement something less than graceful, wore a pleased look as she glanced at her father's face and then turned her eyes across the blue channel to the Welsh hills.

The Paying Guest
Emmeline took the matter seriously, but, being a young woman of some discretion, did not voice all her thoughts. The rent was heavy: so was the cost of Clarence's season-ticket. Against this they had set the advantage of the fine air of Sutton, so good for the child and for the mother, both vastly better in health since they quitted London.

At High Pressure by George Gissing

The Beggar's Nurse by George Gissing

Born in Exile by George Gissing

By the Ionian Sea by George Gissing

A Capitalist by George Gissing

Charles Dickens: A Critical Study by George Gissing

A Charming Family by George Gissing

Christopherson by George Gissing

Comrades in Arms by George Gissing

A Conversion by George Gissing

A Daughter of the Lodge by George Gissing

The Day of Silence by George Gissing

The Elixir by George Gissing

The Emancipated by George Gissing

Fate and the Apothecary by George Gissing

The Fate of Humphrey Snell by George Gissing

The Firebrand by George Gissing

Fleet-Footed Hester by George Gissing

The Foolish Virgin by George Gissing

A Freak of Nature by George Gissing

The House of Cobwebs by George Gissing

Humplebee by George Gissing

The Immortal Dickens by George Gissing

In Honour Bound by George Gissing

In No-Man's Land by George Gissing

In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing

An Inspiration by George Gissing

The Invincible Curate by George Gissing

The Justice and the Vagabond by George Gissing

The Last Half-Crown by George Gissing

A Life's Morning by George Gissing

The Light on the Tower by George Gissing

The Little Woman from Lancashire by George Gissing

Lord Dunfield by George Gissing

Lou and Liz by George Gissing

The Medicine Man by George Gissing

Miss Rodney's Leisure by George Gissing

The Nether World by George Gissing

New Grub Street by George Gissing

The Odd Women by George Gissing

An Old Maid's Triumph by George Gissing

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