In The Year Of Jubilee Author:George Gissing 1887, the "year of Jubilee": fiftieth anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne, occasion for celebrating the unprecedented "Progress of the Human Race," and title of a major novel by George Gissing. The world had changed in fifty years; the trouble was that not all of its changes were for the be... more »st. In the midst of the rejoicing, Gissing saw plenty of reasons for regret, and his novel unfolds a grim drama of greed, vulgarity, self-complacent bigotry, gnawing penury and despair.« less