Author: Jack Callahan
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Man's Grim Justice
Author: Jack Callahan
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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A Dictionary of the Underworld
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131744552X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2680
Book Description
First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131744552X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2680
Book Description
First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
Poems
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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The American Mercury
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Category : Imprisonment
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Category : Imprisonment
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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The Atlantic Monthly
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Works
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Metropolitan Pulpit and Homiletic Monthly
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Homiletic Review
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Metrolitan Pulpit and Homiletic Monthly
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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