Author: Warren Ellis
Publisher: Avatar Press Hc
ISBN: 9781592910502
Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents 24 original B&W issues of the adventures of William Gravel. This hardcover volume includes: Strange Kiss, Stranger Kisses, Strange Killings, SK: Body Orchard, SK: Strong Medicine, and, SK: Necromancer.
Gravel
Author: Warren Ellis
Publisher: Avatar Press Hc
ISBN: 9781592910502
Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents 24 original B&W issues of the adventures of William Gravel. This hardcover volume includes: Strange Kiss, Stranger Kisses, Strange Killings, SK: Body Orchard, SK: Strong Medicine, and, SK: Necromancer.
Publisher: Avatar Press Hc
ISBN: 9781592910502
Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents 24 original B&W issues of the adventures of William Gravel. This hardcover volume includes: Strange Kiss, Stranger Kisses, Strange Killings, SK: Body Orchard, SK: Strong Medicine, and, SK: Necromancer.
Never a Dull Day in Pompeii
Author: Jonathan Cheyne
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449098576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A stranger introduces himself to James and Sandra Carold at the theatre. He explains to them that he is psychometric and can pick up vibrations from objects and can often "see" some of the history of the object, the people who owned it and the places it has been. Years before this story starts this stranger (Malcolm Manston) befriended James father on a train journey on the way to an archaeological dig in Pompeii. Together using Malcolm's talent they uncovered some of the secrets of the town that the ash from Vesuvius buried during the eruption of 79 AD. Malcolm's psychic gift has recently shown him of the whereabouts of a massive hoard of Roman coins and treasure in a secret room in a villa buried beneath the pumice on the slopes of Vesuvius. This gripping adventure story follows the fortunes of James, Sandra and Malcolm in their race to unearth the hoard. They find they are up against an unscrupulous millionaire determined to have the treasure for himself, a powerful crooked Italian official and even the Volcano itself whose rumblings warn of a possible repeat of the eruption in 79 A.D. As the tale unfolds James, Sandra and Malcolm find inner strengths, and new friends in Italy and England who with their various skills help them in their struggle.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449098576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A stranger introduces himself to James and Sandra Carold at the theatre. He explains to them that he is psychometric and can pick up vibrations from objects and can often "see" some of the history of the object, the people who owned it and the places it has been. Years before this story starts this stranger (Malcolm Manston) befriended James father on a train journey on the way to an archaeological dig in Pompeii. Together using Malcolm's talent they uncovered some of the secrets of the town that the ash from Vesuvius buried during the eruption of 79 AD. Malcolm's psychic gift has recently shown him of the whereabouts of a massive hoard of Roman coins and treasure in a secret room in a villa buried beneath the pumice on the slopes of Vesuvius. This gripping adventure story follows the fortunes of James, Sandra and Malcolm in their race to unearth the hoard. They find they are up against an unscrupulous millionaire determined to have the treasure for himself, a powerful crooked Italian official and even the Volcano itself whose rumblings warn of a possible repeat of the eruption in 79 A.D. As the tale unfolds James, Sandra and Malcolm find inner strengths, and new friends in Italy and England who with their various skills help them in their struggle.
Those Other Days
Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
"Those Other Days" is a collection of short stories by E. Phillips Oppenheim. It contains ghost stories, bizarre adventures, strange mysteries, and romance. The stories depict young men courting women, psychic phenomena, and humorous situations. The book is Victorian in its spirit and full of the era's romanticism.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
"Those Other Days" is a collection of short stories by E. Phillips Oppenheim. It contains ghost stories, bizarre adventures, strange mysteries, and romance. The stories depict young men courting women, psychic phenomena, and humorous situations. The book is Victorian in its spirit and full of the era's romanticism.
Nevermore
Author: Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Nevermore" by Rolf Boldrewood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Nevermore" by Rolf Boldrewood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Unwilling Executioner
Author: Andrew Pepper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191025313
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
What gives crime fiction its distinctive shape and form? What makes it such a compelling vehicle of social and political critique? Unwilling Executioner argues that the answer lies in the emerging genre's complex and intimate relationship with the bureaucratic state and modern capitalism, and the contradictions that ensue once the state assumes control of the criminal justice system. This study offers a dramatic new interpretation of the genre's emergence and evolution over a three hundred year period and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. From its roots in the tales of criminality circulated widely in Paris and London in the early eighteenth century, this book examines the extraordinary richness, diversity and complexity of the genre's subsequent thematizations of crime and policing--moving from France and Britain and from continental Europe and the United States to other parts of the globe. In doing so it offers new ways of reading established crime novelists like Gaboriau, Doyle, Hammett, and Simenon, beyond their national contexts and an impulse to characterize their work as either straightforwardly 'radical' or 'conservative'. It also argues for the centrality of writers like Defoe, Gay, Godwin, Vidocq, Morrison, and more recently Manchette, Himes, and Sjöwall and Wahlöö to a project where crime and policing are rooted, and shown to be rooted, in the social and economic conditions of their time. These are all deeply political writers even if their novels exhibit no interest in directly promoting political causes or parties. The result is an agile, layered, and far-reaching account of the crime story's ambivalent relationship to the justice system and its move to complicate our understanding of what crime is and how society is policed and for whose benefit.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191025313
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
What gives crime fiction its distinctive shape and form? What makes it such a compelling vehicle of social and political critique? Unwilling Executioner argues that the answer lies in the emerging genre's complex and intimate relationship with the bureaucratic state and modern capitalism, and the contradictions that ensue once the state assumes control of the criminal justice system. This study offers a dramatic new interpretation of the genre's emergence and evolution over a three hundred year period and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. From its roots in the tales of criminality circulated widely in Paris and London in the early eighteenth century, this book examines the extraordinary richness, diversity and complexity of the genre's subsequent thematizations of crime and policing--moving from France and Britain and from continental Europe and the United States to other parts of the globe. In doing so it offers new ways of reading established crime novelists like Gaboriau, Doyle, Hammett, and Simenon, beyond their national contexts and an impulse to characterize their work as either straightforwardly 'radical' or 'conservative'. It also argues for the centrality of writers like Defoe, Gay, Godwin, Vidocq, Morrison, and more recently Manchette, Himes, and Sjöwall and Wahlöö to a project where crime and policing are rooted, and shown to be rooted, in the social and economic conditions of their time. These are all deeply political writers even if their novels exhibit no interest in directly promoting political causes or parties. The result is an agile, layered, and far-reaching account of the crime story's ambivalent relationship to the justice system and its move to complicate our understanding of what crime is and how society is policed and for whose benefit.
The English Illustrated Magazine: "The Gift of the Sea"
Author:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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The Highest Hill
Author: Rusty Savage
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312876581
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312876581
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The Scots Magazine ...
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
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Scots Magazine
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Languages : en
Pages : 808
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