Author : Robin Adair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Murder
ISBN : 1101441615
Death and the Running Patterer
Robin Adair
Death And The Running Patterer
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Death and the Running Patterer
Robin Adair
Author : Robin Adair
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101445617
Death and the Running Patterer by Robin Adair Pdf
1828: Sydney is a city built on the backs of exiled convicts. But in a colony of criminals, how do you narrow down the list of suspects when a murderer is on the rampage? Nicodemus Dunne was a London policeman. After being deported on trumped up charges of assault, he now makes his living in New South Wales as a running patterer, spreading the news of the day by word of mouth. Confronted with a series of gruesome and horribly inventive murders, the governor seeks out Dunne for his investigative skills and his ability to infiltrate all levels of society. With each mutilated body, the murderer has left clues for Dunne to decipher. Can he put the pieces of the puzzle together and catch his elusive quarry without becoming prey himself?
Australian Crime Fiction
Stephen Knight
Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476670867
Australian Crime Fiction by Stephen Knight Pdf
Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless gold-seekers, and urban crime fiction, including Fergus Hume's 1887 international best-seller The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne. The 1980s saw a surge of private-eye thrillers, popular in a society skeptical of police. Twenty-first century authors have focused on policemen--and increasingly policewomen--and finally indigenous crime narratives. The author explores in detail this rich but little known national subgenre.
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present
John Stephen Farmer
Author : John Stephen Farmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101074200328
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present
William Ernest Henley
Author : William Ernest Henley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKL4K
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present by William Ernest Henley Pdf
Dickens and the Business of Death
Claire Wood
Author : Claire Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107098633
Dickens and the Business of Death by Claire Wood Pdf
The first ever full-length study exploring how Dickens's fiction engaged with, responded to, and even exploited Victorian attitudes to death.
The Slang Dictionary
John Camden Hotten
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Cant
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000134728
The Slang Dictionary by John Camden Hotten Pdf
The Slang Dictionary; Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast" Expressions of High and Low Society
John Camden Hotten
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : English language
ISBN : PRNC:32101072898081
The Slang Dictionary; Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast" Expressions of High and Low Society by John Camden Hotten Pdf
The Slang Dictionary
ohne Autor
Author : ohne Autor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783846049556
The Slang Dictionary by ohne Autor Pdf
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
The Slang Dictionary, Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast" Expressions of High and Low Society. Many with Their Etymology and a Few with Their History Traced
John Camden Hotten
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : English language
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000134729
The Slang Dictionary, Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast" Expressions of High and Low Society. Many with Their Etymology and a Few with Their History Traced by John Camden Hotten Pdf
The Slang Dictionary
John Camden-Hotten
Author : John Camden-Hotten
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752390230
The Slang Dictionary by John Camden-Hotten Pdf
Reproduction of the original: The Slang Dictionary by John Camden-Hotten
The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal
John Camden Hotten
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : London : Chatto and Windus
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004988478
The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten Pdf
THE SLANG DICTIONARY: ETYMOLOGICAL HISTORICAL AND ANECDOTAL
JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN
Author : JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
THE SLANG DICTIONARY: ETYMOLOGICAL HISTORICAL AND ANECDOTAL by JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN Pdf
Slang, like everything else, changes much in the course of time; and though but fifteen years have elapsed since this Dictionary was first introduced to the public, alterations have since then been many and frequent in the subject of which it treats. The first issue of a work of this kind is, too, ever beset with difficulties, and the compiler was always aware that, though under the circumstances of its production the book was an undoubted success, it necessarily lacked many of the elements which would make that success lasting, and cause the “Slang Dictionary” to be regarded as an authority and a work of reference not merely among the uneducated, but among people of cultivated tastes and inquiring minds. For though the vulgar use of the word Slang applies to those words only which are used by the dangerous classes and the lowest grades of society, the term has in reality, and should have—as every one who has ever studied the subject knows—a much wider significance. Bearing this in mind, the original publisher of this Dictionary lost no opportunity[vi] of obtaining information of a useful kind, which could hardly find place in any other book of reference, with the intention of eventually bringing out an entirely new edition, in which all former errors should be corrected and all fresh meanings and new words find a place. His intention always was to give those words which are familiar to all conversant with our colloquialisms and locutions, but which have hitherto been connected with an unwritten tongue, a local habitation, and to produce a book which, in its way, would be as useful to students of philology, as well as to lovers of human nature in all its phases, as any standard work in the English language. The squeamishness which tries to ignore the existence of slang fails signally, for not only in the streets and the prisons, but at the bar, on the bench, in the pulpit, and in the Houses of Parliament, does slang make itself heard, and, as the shortest and safest means to an end, understood too. My predecessor, the original compiler, did not live to see his wish become an actual fact; and, failing him, it devolved upon me to undertake the task of revision and addition. How far this has been accomplished, the curious reader who is possessed of a copy of each edition can best judge for himself by comparing any couple of pages he may select. Of my own share in the work I wish to say nothing, as I have mainly benefited by the labours of others; but I may say[vii] that, when I undertook the position of editor of what, with the smallest possible stretch of fancy, may now be called a new book, I had no idea that the alteration would be nearly so large or so manifest. However, as the work is now done, it will best speak for itself, and, as good wine needs no bush, I will leave it, in all hope of their tenderness, to those readers who are best qualified to say how the task has been consummated. In conclusion, it is but fair for me to thank, as strongly as weak words will permit, those gentlemen who have in various ways assisted me. To two of them, who are well known in the world of literature, and who have not only aided me with advice, but have placed many new words and etymologies at my service, I am under particular obligation. With this I beg to subscribe myself, the reader’s most obedient servant,
The Slang Dictionary
Anonymous
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368820909
The Slang Dictionary by Anonymous Pdf
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Singing the News of Death
Una McIlvenna
Author : Una McIlvenna
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197551851
Singing the News of Death by Una McIlvenna Pdf
Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets to be sold in streets and marketplaces by ballad-singers. Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 looks at how and why song was employed across Europe for centuries as a vehicle for broadcasting news about crime and executions, exploring how this performative medium could frame and mediate the message of punishment and repentance. Examining ballads in English, French, Dutch, German, and Italian across four centuries, author Una McIlvenna offers the first multilingual and longue durée study of the complex and fascinating phenomenon of popular songs about brutal public death. Ballads were frequently written in the first-person voice, and often purported to be the last words, confession or 'dying speech' of the condemned criminal, yet were ironically on sale the day of the execution itself. Musical notation was generally not required as ballads were set to well-known tunes. Execution ballads were therefore a medium accessible to all, regardless of literacy, social class, age, gender or location. A genre that retained extraordinary continuities in form and content across time, space, and language, the execution ballad grew in popularity in the nineteenth century, and only began to fade as executions themselves were removed from the public eye. With an accompanying database of recordings, Singing the News of Death brings these centuries-old songs of death back to life.