Author: George Augustus Sala
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465549080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Author: George Augustus Sala
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: George Augustus Sala
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375002874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.

Author: George A. Sala
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: George Augustus Sala
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: George Sala
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040544731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Author: Charles Van Onselen
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1868426238
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 609

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Johannesburg, South Africa, was ? and is ? the Frontier of Money. Within months of its founding, the mining camp was host to organised crime: the African 'Regiment of the Hills' and 'Irish Brigade' bandits. Bars, brothels, boarding houses and hotels oozed testosterone and violence, and the use of fists and guns was commonplace. Beyond the chaos were clear signs of another struggle, one to maintain control, honour and order within the emerging male and mining dominated culture. In the underworld, the dictum of 'honour among thieves', as well as a hatred of informers, testified to attempts at self-regulation. A 'real man' did not take advantage of an opponent by employing underhand tactics. It had to be a 'fair fight' if a man was to be respected. This was the world that 'One-armed Jack' McLoughlin - brigand, soldier, sailor, mercenary, burglar, highwayman and safe-cracker - entered in the early 1890s to become Johannesburg's most infamous 'Irish' anti-hero and social bandit. McLoughlin's infatuation with George Stevenson prompted him to recruit the young Englishman into his gang of safe-crackers but 'Stevo' was a man with a past and primed for personal and professional betrayal. It was a deadly mixture. Honour could only be retrieved through a Showdown at the Red Lion.

Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1246

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Author: John Sutherland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317863321
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 955

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With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and a generous selection of images have been chosen to illustrate various aspects of Victorian publishing, writing, and reading life. Organised alphabetically, the information provided will be a boon to students, researchers and all lovers of reading. The entries, though concise, meet the high standards demanded by modern scholarship. The writing - marked by Sutherland's characteristic combination of flair, clarity and erudition - is of such a high standard that the book is a joy to read, as well as a definitive work of reference.

Author: P.D. Edwards
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351944355
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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In Dickens's lifetime, and for a generation or so after, Edmund Hodgson Yates and George Augustus Sala were the best known and most successful of his "young men" - the budding writers who acknowledged him as their guide and mentor and whose literary careers the publicity and privately fostered. The book considers their personal and literary relationships with Dickens, with each other, and with other writers of the period, Bohemian and "respectable", including Yates's arch-enemy, his post-office colleague Anthony Trollope. But it also demonstrates that their life and writings - their fiction, private letters and occasional essays in verse and drama, as well as their already recognised contributions to the development of the "new journalism" - are interesting and historically illuminating in their own right, not merely pale reflections of the glory of greater writers. Extensive use is made of previously unpublished material.