Author: Louis HERRMAN
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Helps to the Study of John Buchan's "A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys.'.
Author: Louis HERRMAN
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Notes on John Buchan's "A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys.".
Author: Thomas PALMER (M.A., LL.B.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Languages : en
Pages : 19
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A Book of Escapes And Hurried Journeys
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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This work presents a collection of twelve famous escapes or hurried journeys from history, including Charles II's escape after the Battle of Worcester, Marie Antoinette's flight to Varennes, and Winston Churchill's adventures during the Boer War. The stories show how little decisions, odds, and unexpected events can change the course of history and how the success of one plan may be hindered by the failure of another. In addition, it emphasizes how much a successful escape or journey often relies on an individual's courage.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This work presents a collection of twelve famous escapes or hurried journeys from history, including Charles II's escape after the Battle of Worcester, Marie Antoinette's flight to Varennes, and Winston Churchill's adventures during the Boer War. The stories show how little decisions, odds, and unexpected events can change the course of history and how the success of one plan may be hindered by the failure of another. In addition, it emphasizes how much a successful escape or journey often relies on an individual's courage.
A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys. With plates.
Author: John Buchan
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Foul & Fair Play
Author: Marty Roth
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820316222
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Foul and Fair Play is an examination of classic detective fiction as a genre--an attempt to read a wide variety of texts by different authors as variations on a common and relatively tight set of conventions. Marty Roth covers the period from the "prehistory" of detective fiction in Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. G. Wells up to the 1960s, which marked the end, he says, of the classical period--"the end of an extremely conservative paradigm." The detective fiction genre, as Roth defines it, includes analytic detective fiction, hard-boiled detective fiction, and the spy thriller. Roth insists on the structural common ground of these three types of writing and places them in the larger system of mystery fiction that preceded and surrounds them. The first part of the book consists of a reading of conventions: conventions of character (the detective, the criminal), of gender and sexuality, of narrative style, of settings, and of the curious rules of exchange and coincidence that operate in the realm where detective stories take place. The second section deals with the convoluted epistemology of mystery and detective fiction, depending as it does on other major intellectual developments of the late nineteenth century, such as psychoanalysis. An extremely original study, Foul and Fair Play offers many insights into the literary and cultural history of a popular genre.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820316222
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Foul and Fair Play is an examination of classic detective fiction as a genre--an attempt to read a wide variety of texts by different authors as variations on a common and relatively tight set of conventions. Marty Roth covers the period from the "prehistory" of detective fiction in Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. G. Wells up to the 1960s, which marked the end, he says, of the classical period--"the end of an extremely conservative paradigm." The detective fiction genre, as Roth defines it, includes analytic detective fiction, hard-boiled detective fiction, and the spy thriller. Roth insists on the structural common ground of these three types of writing and places them in the larger system of mystery fiction that preceded and surrounds them. The first part of the book consists of a reading of conventions: conventions of character (the detective, the criminal), of gender and sexuality, of narrative style, of settings, and of the curious rules of exchange and coincidence that operate in the realm where detective stories take place. The second section deals with the convoluted epistemology of mystery and detective fiction, depending as it does on other major intellectual developments of the late nineteenth century, such as psychoanalysis. An extremely original study, Foul and Fair Play offers many insights into the literary and cultural history of a popular genre.
The Literary Digest International Book Review
Author: Clifford Smyth
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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The Concise Cambridge Bibliography of English Literaturee
Author: George Watson
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Literary Digest International Book Review
Author: Clifford Smyth
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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The Spectator
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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The Education Gazette of the Province of the Cape of Good Hope
Author: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Education Department
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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