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Author : Douglas G. Greene
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486114125
Fourteen extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, and others — many never before published in book form.
Author : Steven Price
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771069437
Longlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize No. 1 National Bestseller Globe and Mail's "20 Books to Read in 2016," Maclean's bestseller, Toronto Star bestseller, Ottawa Citizen's "Best on the Shelf," Huffington Post's "Best Fall 2016 Books," Publishers Weekly "Books of the Week," National Post bestseller, Vanity Fair 2016 "Must Read Books of the Fall" "A dark tale of love, betrayal and murder that reaches from the slums of Victorian London to the diamond mines in South Africa, to the American Civil War and back. Superb storytelling." --Kurt Palka, author of The Piano Maker A magnificent literary historical-suspense novel in the tradition of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries, Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers, and Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White, By Gaslight is destined to be one of the most acclaimed and talked-about books of the year. London, 1885. In a city of fog and darkness, the notorious thief Edward Shade exists only as a ghost, a fabled con, a thief of other men's futures -- a man of smoke. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of a brutal detective, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead. His father died without ever tracing Shade; William, still reeling from his loss, is determined to drag the thief out of the shadows. Adam Foole is a gentleman without a past, haunted by a love affair ten years gone. When he receives a letter from his lost beloved, he returns to London in search of her; what he learns of her fate, and its connection to the man known as Shade, will force him to confront a grief he thought long-buried. What follows is a fog-enshrouded hunt through sewers, opium dens, drawing rooms, and seance halls. Above all, it is the story of the most unlikely of bonds: between William Pinkerton, the greatest detective of his age, and Adam Foole, the one man who may hold the key to finding Edward Shade. Epic in scope, brilliantly conceived, and stunningly written, Steven Price's By Gaslight is a riveting, atmospheric portrait of two men on the brink. Moving from the diamond mines of South Africa to the battlefields of the Civil War, the novel is a journey into a cityscape of grief, trust, and its breaking, where what we share can bind us even against our darker selves.
Author : Brian P. Luskey,Wendy A. Woloson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812291025
While elite merchants, financiers, shopkeepers, and customers were the most visible producers, consumers, and distributors of goods and capital in the nineteenth century, they were certainly not alone in shaping the economy. Lurking in the shadows of capitalism's past are those who made markets by navigating a range of new financial instruments, information systems, and modes of transactions: prostitutes, dealers in used goods, mock auctioneers, illegal slavers, traffickers in stolen horses, emigrant runners, pilfering dock workers, and other ordinary people who, through their transactions and lives, helped to make capitalism as much as it made them. Capitalism by Gaslight illuminates American economic history by emphasizing the significance of these markets and the cultural debates they provoked. These essays reveal that the rules of economic engagement were still being established in the nineteenth century: delineations between legal and illegal, moral and immoral, acceptable and unsuitable were far from clear. The contributors examine the fluid mobility and unstable value of people and goods, the shifting geographies and structures of commercial institutions, the blurred boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate economic activity, and the daily lives of men and women who participated creatively—and often subversively—in American commerce. With subjects ranging from women's studies and African American history to material and consumer culture, this compelling volume illustrates that when hidden forms of commerce are brought to light, they can become flashpoints revealing the tensions, fissures, and inequities inherent in capitalism itself. Contributors: Paul Erickson, Robert J. Gamble, Ellen Gruber Garvey, Corey Goettsch, Joshua R. Greenberg, Katie M. Hemphill, Craig B. Hollander, Brian P. Luskey, Will B. Mackintosh, Adam Mendelsohn, Brendan P. O'Malley, Michael D. Thompson, Wendy A. Woloson.
Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476684970
This is a critical study of the great British man of letters G.K. Chesterton, devoted to the novels, stories and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination. "Everything is different in the dark," wrote Chesterton; "perhaps you don't know how terrible a truth that is." Chesterton's use of the theme of "gargoyles" provides the thematic structure of the book. It covers the detective stories of Father Brown and others, the locked rooms and miracle crimes in his writing, his status as a science fiction writer, and the riddles and paradoxes of three works--Job, The Man Who Was Thursday, and the play The Surprise. This volume also includes an interlude about Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges and a robust appendix including interviews about the formation of Ignatius Press's Collected Chesterton.
Author : Curtis Evans
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476616087
In honor of the 70th birthday of Professor Douglas G. Greene, mystery genre scholar and publisher, this book offers 24 new essays and two reprinted classics on detective fiction by contributors around the world, including ten Edgar (Mystery Writers of America) winners and nominees. The essays cover a myriad of authors and books from more than a century, from J.S. Fletcher’s The Investigators, originally serialized in 1901, to P.D. James’ Death Comes to Pemberley, published at the end of 2011. Subjects covered include detective fiction in the Edwardian era and the “Golden Age” between the two world wars; hard-boiled detective fiction; mysteries and intellectuals; and pastiches, short stories and radio plays.
Author : Lyndsay Faye
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803284903
Discover Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson through the eyes of those who knew them best. From familiar faces like Mrs Hudson to minor characters like Lomax the sub-librarian, Observations by Gaslight – told through diaries, telegrams, and even grocery lists – paints a masterful portrait of Holmes and Watson as you have never seen them before. See Irene Adler team up with her former adversary in an eerie and near-deadly enquiry. Learn of the case that cemented the friendship between Holmes and Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard. And witness Stanley Hopkins' first meeting with the remote logician he idolizes. Lyndsay Faye, two-time Edgar Award nominee, debuted with Dust and Shadow, her much-admired novel pitting Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper. Now Faye is back with a thrilling volume of new and previously published short stories and novellas narrated by those who knew the Great Detective best. Reviewers on Observations by Gaslight: 'Faye is an expert on all things Sherlockian, she has unparalleled flair.' CrimeReads 'Meat and drink for fans of the Canon of the Sacred Writings.' Kirkus
Author : Herb Galewitz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486110134
Over 400 timeless observations, including "A true friend is one soul in two bodies" (Aristotle), "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept," (Samuel Butler), many more. Great browsing, reference book.
Author : John Grafton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486111285
Ten classics by masters of the macabre: Bram Stoker's "The Judge's House," "The Moonlit Road" by Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James's "The Rose Garden," Charles Dickens, and seven others.
Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486114811
Classic novel that has inspired generations of seekers. Blending Eastern mysticism and psychoanalysis, Hesse presents a strikingly original view of man and culture and the arduous process of self-discovery, reconciliation, harmony, and peace.
Author : Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486113722
Compact and affordable, this collection of 43 deliciously dark fairy and folk tales features "Rapunzel," "Hänsel and Grethel," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Cinderella," "Little Snow-White," "The Golden Goose," "The Frog-King, or Iron Henry," and "The Twelve Brothers."
Author : Matthew Gregory Lewis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486112329
A spellbinding Gothic novel, The Monk is Matthew Lewis' most famous work. A violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest unfolds in this spellbinding Gothic novel, set in a sinister Capuchin monastery.
Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486110806
DIVAn unworldly and generous vicar lives contentedly with his large family until disaster strikes. The ensuing havoc culminates with justice for all in this delightful lampoon of 18th-century literary conventions. /div
Author : Stendhal
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486114743
DIVThis landmark of psychological realism chronicles a young provincial's progress in Parisian society of the early 19th century, where he encounters passion, intrigue, and mortal peril. /div
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486115405
This collection features 14 of Melville's short stories reprinted from Harper's and Putnam's magazines, including "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles," a dramatic story set on the Galapagos Islands, plus "The Bell-Tower," more.
Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486113630
This anthology includes sonnets from Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser; popular poems by Donne ("Go, and catch a falling star"), Jonson ("Drink to me only with thine eyes"), Marlowe ("The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"); more.