Author: James Hadley Chase
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788186734773
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
About the Book: -`The Wary Transgressor is the 29th novel by the popular thriller writer, James Hadley Chase, written in 1952. It has the most riveting plot and is self narrated by the protagonist David Chisholm About the Story:He met her when he was down and out-guiding tourists round the sights of Milan. She was rich, beautiful and self-assured. He was a down-at-heel drifter on the run from the police. So when she suggested having lunch with him, David couldn't believe his luck. But it wasn't really luck that had arranged their meeting. It was just a small part of the plan Laura's plan in which David stood to inherit over six thousand lire. All he had to do was help commit murder. About the Author: James Hadley Chase has written around 90 crime thrillers, beginning with `No Orchids For Miss Blandish in the year 1939. The title got so popular then, that there was no looking back. His books have been sold in millions of copies world-wide, and is a name with die-hard fans across generations.
The Wary Transgressor
Author: James Hadley Chase
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788186734773
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
About the Book: -`The Wary Transgressor is the 29th novel by the popular thriller writer, James Hadley Chase, written in 1952. It has the most riveting plot and is self narrated by the protagonist David Chisholm About the Story:He met her when he was down and out-guiding tourists round the sights of Milan. She was rich, beautiful and self-assured. He was a down-at-heel drifter on the run from the police. So when she suggested having lunch with him, David couldn't believe his luck. But it wasn't really luck that had arranged their meeting. It was just a small part of the plan Laura's plan in which David stood to inherit over six thousand lire. All he had to do was help commit murder. About the Author: James Hadley Chase has written around 90 crime thrillers, beginning with `No Orchids For Miss Blandish in the year 1939. The title got so popular then, that there was no looking back. His books have been sold in millions of copies world-wide, and is a name with die-hard fans across generations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788186734773
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
About the Book: -`The Wary Transgressor is the 29th novel by the popular thriller writer, James Hadley Chase, written in 1952. It has the most riveting plot and is self narrated by the protagonist David Chisholm About the Story:He met her when he was down and out-guiding tourists round the sights of Milan. She was rich, beautiful and self-assured. He was a down-at-heel drifter on the run from the police. So when she suggested having lunch with him, David couldn't believe his luck. But it wasn't really luck that had arranged their meeting. It was just a small part of the plan Laura's plan in which David stood to inherit over six thousand lire. All he had to do was help commit murder. About the Author: James Hadley Chase has written around 90 crime thrillers, beginning with `No Orchids For Miss Blandish in the year 1939. The title got so popular then, that there was no looking back. His books have been sold in millions of copies world-wide, and is a name with die-hard fans across generations.
Skollie
Author: John Fredericks
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1776092007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In 2016, South African film audiences were mesmerised by the film Noem My Skollie, which was written by – and based on the life of – John W. Fredericks. In this book Fredericks tells the full story on which the film was based. Growing up in a dusty township on the Cape Flats, Fredericks formed a gang with his friends, and at the age of seventeen he was arrested for robbery and sentenced to two years in Pollsmoor prison. A number gangs vied to initiate him into their ranks, but he resisted their advances, offering instead to help them push their time by telling stories. And so he became the prison ‘cinema’, drawing on his storytelling abilities and cementing his ambition to become a writer. Life after prison became a nightmare when he was arrested for a murder he hadn’t committed, his childhood friends were sentenced to die on the gallows, and a gang boss tried to kill him. Slowly he turned his life around, getting a job and building a family, but society kept judging him as a gangster. Struggling to deal with his past, he turned to storytelling again, and painstakingly learnt the art of scriptwriting. The result was Noem My Skollie, which was watched by almost 90 000 people and won numerous awards. Written in a powerful and authentic voice, Skollie is a gripping memoir of life on the Cape Flats, of prison and gangs, and of one man’s struggle to survive all this by telling stories.
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1776092007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In 2016, South African film audiences were mesmerised by the film Noem My Skollie, which was written by – and based on the life of – John W. Fredericks. In this book Fredericks tells the full story on which the film was based. Growing up in a dusty township on the Cape Flats, Fredericks formed a gang with his friends, and at the age of seventeen he was arrested for robbery and sentenced to two years in Pollsmoor prison. A number gangs vied to initiate him into their ranks, but he resisted their advances, offering instead to help them push their time by telling stories. And so he became the prison ‘cinema’, drawing on his storytelling abilities and cementing his ambition to become a writer. Life after prison became a nightmare when he was arrested for a murder he hadn’t committed, his childhood friends were sentenced to die on the gallows, and a gang boss tried to kill him. Slowly he turned his life around, getting a job and building a family, but society kept judging him as a gangster. Struggling to deal with his past, he turned to storytelling again, and painstakingly learnt the art of scriptwriting. The result was Noem My Skollie, which was watched by almost 90 000 people and won numerous awards. Written in a powerful and authentic voice, Skollie is a gripping memoir of life on the Cape Flats, of prison and gangs, and of one man’s struggle to survive all this by telling stories.
The Third Reich on Screen, 1929-2015
Author: Bob Herzberg
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476664269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
For more than 80 years, images of the Third Reich have appeared in newsreels, documentaries, and fictional stories--from comedies and musicals to war, horror and science fiction films. Many of these representations say as much about the filmmakers as they do about Nazism itself. Hollywood often used the brutal Nazi as an all-purpose villain in escapist adventures set during and after the war, but just as often used him to attack the evil he symbolized. Drawing on studio files, correspondence of the Production Code office and the writings of noted historians and critics, this book describes the making of many such films produced in Hollywood, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc nations. Biographies of several military and political figures who served as the basis for Nazi characters compare the cinematic and real-life versions.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476664269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
For more than 80 years, images of the Third Reich have appeared in newsreels, documentaries, and fictional stories--from comedies and musicals to war, horror and science fiction films. Many of these representations say as much about the filmmakers as they do about Nazism itself. Hollywood often used the brutal Nazi as an all-purpose villain in escapist adventures set during and after the war, but just as often used him to attack the evil he symbolized. Drawing on studio files, correspondence of the Production Code office and the writings of noted historians and critics, this book describes the making of many such films produced in Hollywood, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc nations. Biographies of several military and political figures who served as the basis for Nazi characters compare the cinematic and real-life versions.
Shock Treatment
Author: James Hadley Chase
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471903397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Terry Regan, who'd dropped into the Delaneys' cabin up at Blue Jay Lake to sell them a TV set, took in the situation at a glance. Gilda was young and stunningly attractive. Jack Delany was a vicious, hard-drinking cripple, imprisoned in a wheelchair. Regan should have left them ... but he didn't.
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471903397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Terry Regan, who'd dropped into the Delaneys' cabin up at Blue Jay Lake to sell them a TV set, took in the situation at a glance. Gilda was young and stunningly attractive. Jack Delany was a vicious, hard-drinking cripple, imprisoned in a wheelchair. Regan should have left them ... but he didn't.
Anatole Litvak
Author: Michelangelo Capua
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476618704
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
During his 40-year career, director-producer Anatole Litvak (1902-1974) made films of all genres in Russia, Germany, England, France and the United States. His rootless background was cited by critics lamenting his lack of consistent style, but it also added to his mystique as a chameleon-like realisateur. Litvak directed Hollywood greats like Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield, Kirk Douglas, Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh, Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Olivia de Havilland, Yul Brynner, Burt Lancaster, Barbara Stanwick and many others. He was twice nominated for Best Director by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences for The Snake Pit (1948) and for Decision Before Dawn (1951). These films--along with Mayerling (1936), Sorry, Wrong Number (1946) and Anastasia (1956)--are considered classics, but his pictures don't offer many clues about Litvak the man. Apart from passing references to his wartime service as combat documentarian, he never discussed his life in print, allowing only brief interviews relating exclusively to his work. This biography fills that void, providing the first detailed portrait of an artist described by film historian Richard Schickel as "an adept, adaptable and prolific man; the kind of director that Hollywood likes best."
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476618704
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
During his 40-year career, director-producer Anatole Litvak (1902-1974) made films of all genres in Russia, Germany, England, France and the United States. His rootless background was cited by critics lamenting his lack of consistent style, but it also added to his mystique as a chameleon-like realisateur. Litvak directed Hollywood greats like Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield, Kirk Douglas, Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh, Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Olivia de Havilland, Yul Brynner, Burt Lancaster, Barbara Stanwick and many others. He was twice nominated for Best Director by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences for The Snake Pit (1948) and for Decision Before Dawn (1951). These films--along with Mayerling (1936), Sorry, Wrong Number (1946) and Anastasia (1956)--are considered classics, but his pictures don't offer many clues about Litvak the man. Apart from passing references to his wartime service as combat documentarian, he never discussed his life in print, allowing only brief interviews relating exclusively to his work. This biography fills that void, providing the first detailed portrait of an artist described by film historian Richard Schickel as "an adept, adaptable and prolific man; the kind of director that Hollywood likes best."
Selected Writings
Author: Keith Leopold
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A selection of studies in German literature published by Keith Leopold over the last 40 years. Topics include the novel, the novella and narrative forms in general. Authors under discussion range from Wieland to Hans Hellmut Kirst.
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A selection of studies in German literature published by Keith Leopold over the last 40 years. Topics include the novel, the novella and narrative forms in general. Authors under discussion range from Wieland to Hans Hellmut Kirst.
The Noir Thriller
Author: Lee Horsley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230280757
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting diversity of nineties thrillers, with sections on the tough investigators, gangsters and victims of the Depression years: the first-person killers, femmes fatales and black protagonists of mid-century; the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230280757
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting diversity of nineties thrillers, with sections on the tough investigators, gangsters and victims of the Depression years: the first-person killers, femmes fatales and black protagonists of mid-century; the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir.
Sam Spiegel
Author: Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 068483619X
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This biography is the story of how a bankrupt refugee without a studio managed to produce several of the greatest films of all time: "The African Queen, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, " and "Lawrence of Arabia." Film credits aside, Sam Spiegel led a flamboyant and uncompromising life, and the full story has never been told--until now. of photos.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 068483619X
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This biography is the story of how a bankrupt refugee without a studio managed to produce several of the greatest films of all time: "The African Queen, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, " and "Lawrence of Arabia." Film credits aside, Sam Spiegel led a flamboyant and uncompromising life, and the full story has never been told--until now. of photos.
Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349813664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1585
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349813664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1585
Book Description
Areopagitica
Author: John Milton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description