Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755155335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Paul Pry, one of Gardner’s least-known and strangest characters is showcased here. He picks ‘Mugs’ Magoo out of the gutter and forma a partnership which makes the big shots of the underworld look pathetic.
The Adventures Of Paul Pry
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755155335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Paul Pry, one of Gardner’s least-known and strangest characters is showcased here. He picks ‘Mugs’ Magoo out of the gutter and forma a partnership which makes the big shots of the underworld look pathetic.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755155335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Paul Pry, one of Gardner’s least-known and strangest characters is showcased here. He picks ‘Mugs’ Magoo out of the gutter and forma a partnership which makes the big shots of the underworld look pathetic.
The Adventures Of Paul Pry
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755140451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Paul Pry, one of Gardner’s least-known and strangest characters is showcased here. He picks ‘Mugs’ Magoo out of the gutter and forma a partnership which makes the big shots of the underworld look pathetic.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755140451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Paul Pry, one of Gardner’s least-known and strangest characters is showcased here. He picks ‘Mugs’ Magoo out of the gutter and forma a partnership which makes the big shots of the underworld look pathetic.
The Adventures of Paul Pry
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892969760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Paul Pry, a suave adventurer, aided by Mugs Magoo, a one-armed ex-cop with a photographic memory, solves unusual crimes and recovers stolen goods, which he turns in for the reward
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ISBN: 9780892969760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Paul Pry, a suave adventurer, aided by Mugs Magoo, a one-armed ex-cop with a photographic memory, solves unusual crimes and recovers stolen goods, which he turns in for the reward
The Adventures of Paul Pry
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I Hope I Don't Intrude
Author: David Vincent
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191038148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century. The volume is not just an account of a play, or of late Georgian and Victorian theatre. Rather it is a history of privacy, showing how the play resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual privacy, the idea of intimacy, and the evolution of public and private spheres. After 1825 the overly inquisitive figure of Paul Pry appeared everywhere - in songs, stories, and newspapers, and on everything from buttons and Staffordshire pottery to pubs, ships, and stagecoaches - and 'Paul-Prying' rapidly entered the language. 'I Hope I Don't Intrude' is an innovative kind of social history, using rich archival research to trace this cultural artefact through every aspect of its consumer context, and using its meanings to interrogate the largely hidden history of privacy in a period of major transformations in the role of the home, mass communication (particularly the new letter post, which delivered private messages through a public service), and the state. In vivid and entertaining detail, including many illustrations, David Vincent presents the most thorough account yet attempted of a recreational event in an era which saw a decisive shift in consumer markets. His study casts fresh light on the perennial tensions between curiosity and intrusion that were captured in Paul Pry and his catchphrase. Giving a new account of the communications revolution of the period, it re-evaluates the role of the state and the market in creating a new regime of privacy. And its critique of the concept and practice of surveillance looks forward to twenty-first-century concerns about the invasion of privacy through new technologies.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191038148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century. The volume is not just an account of a play, or of late Georgian and Victorian theatre. Rather it is a history of privacy, showing how the play resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual privacy, the idea of intimacy, and the evolution of public and private spheres. After 1825 the overly inquisitive figure of Paul Pry appeared everywhere - in songs, stories, and newspapers, and on everything from buttons and Staffordshire pottery to pubs, ships, and stagecoaches - and 'Paul-Prying' rapidly entered the language. 'I Hope I Don't Intrude' is an innovative kind of social history, using rich archival research to trace this cultural artefact through every aspect of its consumer context, and using its meanings to interrogate the largely hidden history of privacy in a period of major transformations in the role of the home, mass communication (particularly the new letter post, which delivered private messages through a public service), and the state. In vivid and entertaining detail, including many illustrations, David Vincent presents the most thorough account yet attempted of a recreational event in an era which saw a decisive shift in consumer markets. His study casts fresh light on the perennial tensions between curiosity and intrusion that were captured in Paul Pry and his catchphrase. Giving a new account of the communications revolution of the period, it re-evaluates the role of the state and the market in creating a new regime of privacy. And its critique of the concept and practice of surveillance looks forward to twenty-first-century concerns about the invasion of privacy through new technologies.
The Adventures of Paul Pry
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Pages : 8
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Pages : 8
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The Leviathan Songster, Containing a Choice Collection of Comic and Sentimental Songs, Etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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The Universal Songster, Or, Museum of Mirth
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Playing to the Crowd
Author: F. Burwick
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230370659
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230370659
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.
The Universal Songster
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Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Pages : 474
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