New York Characters

Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781786259691

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The Gangs Of New York by Herbert Asbury Pdf

Herbert Asbury presents here a vivid and startling account of New York gangdom from its beginning in Revolutionary times to comparatively recent days. Here are the stories of the great gangs which terrorized the city and at times menaced its very existence—from the Bowery Boys and the Dead Rabbits to the Gophers and the Eastmans. Kid Dropper, Dopey Benny, Gyp the Blood and Owney Madden are a few of the gangster luminaries described, not to mention such female evildoers as Gallus Mag and Sadie the Goat. Nor have the underworld’s lesser lights been overlooked; for these pages are crowded with a host of gang warriors, pickpockets, tong leaders, murderers, politicians, gamblers, prostitutes, dive-keepers and a few would-be reformers. Mr. Asbury has created such a rich, factual background for this chronicle of crime and gangsterism that the book gains considerable stature as a revealing picture of New York City’s history through a century of frenzied growth and expansion. Whether you read it as such or merely for amusement, it is a swift, exciting experience.

Author : Johannes Riis,Aaron Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429749162

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Screening Characters by Johannes Riis,Aaron Taylor Pdf

Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on archival material, interviews, philosophical inquiry, and conceptual analysis in order to give new, thought-provoking answers to these queries. Providing multifaceted accounts of the nature of screen characters, contributions are organized around a series of important subjects, including issues of class, race, ethics, and generic types as they are encountered in moving image media. These topics, in turn, are personified by such memorable figures as Cary Grant, Jon Hamm, Audrey Hepburn, and Seul-gi Kim, in addition to avatars, online personalities, animated characters, and the ensembles of shows such as The Sopranos, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad.

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393342123

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Desperate Characters by Paula Fox Pdf

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels One of the New York Times' 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years "A towering landmark of postwar Realism…A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." —David Foster Wallace Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a stray, perhaps rabies-infected cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague the Bentwoods' lives, revealing the fault lines and fractures in a marriage—and a society—wrenching itself apart. First published in 1970 to wide acclaim, Desperate Characters stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature — a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd, The Great Gatsby, Miss Lonelyhearts, and Seize the Day."

Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143112082

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Revolutionary Characters by Gordon S. Wood Pdf

In 10 essays from previously published articles, the author presents miniature portraits of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, and others known as the founding fathers.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1992 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89110490869

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Thomas Lincoln Casey,Charles Lane Poor,Gilbert Van Ingen,Edmund Otis Hovey,Ralph Winfred Tower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Science
ISBN : HARVARD:HW33X7

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by Thomas Lincoln Casey,Charles Lane Poor,Gilbert Van Ingen,Edmund Otis Hovey,Ralph Winfred Tower Pdf

Records of meetings 1808-1916 in v. 11-27.

Author : Julian Murphet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192677815

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Modern Character by Julian Murphet Pdf

How was modern character made or remade at the turn of the twentieth century? Modern Character: 1888-1905 considers a range of literary and dramatic texts, showcasing the extraordinary efforts of various writers to rethink and reinvent 'human character' during this period. Arguing that many of the most significant breakthroughs happened in the small theatres of Europe in the 1890s, the book's first section demonstrates how the countervailing currents of Naturalism and Symbolism created a vortex in which time-honoured truisms about character consistency, depth, and verisimilitude were jettisoned. Works by Ibsen, Strindberg, Maeterlinck, and Chekhov provide evidence of a searching and critical campaign against assumed models of characterization. The second section turns to contemporary prose narratives, with attention to Knut Hamsun, Oscar Wilde, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Henry James, George Egerton, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Joseph Conrad, to ask what writers working in the novel, novella, and short-story forms were doing to contest prevailing expectations about represented persons. Inconsistency, bad faith, fragmentation, and unconscious motives creep into the character spaces of these fictions. Character description recedes and plots disintegrate; a penumbral negativity intrudes just where identification and sympathy might have been achieved. Ultimately, Julian Murphet proposes that the 'modern character' emerging over this decade and a half presents a radical rethinking of a venerable category of narrative and dramatic art, with profound consequences for the coming century.

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 039331894X

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Desperate Characters by Paula Fox Pdf

First published in 1970 to great acclaim, this novel stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature--a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd" and "The Great Gatsby".

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069121386

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Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Boston by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jordan Alexander Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674987043

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When Novels Were Books by Jordan Alexander Stein Pdf

The novel was born religious, alongside Protestant texts produced in the same format by the same publishers. Novels borrowed features of these texts but over the years distinguished themselves, becoming the genre we know today. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this history, showing how the physical object of the book shaped the stories it contained.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : American literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433082244082

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The American Bookseller by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1992 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000065837375

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Alyssa Cole
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062982667

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When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole Pdf

An instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "I was knocked over by the momentum of an intense psychological thriller that doesn’t let go until the final page. This is a terrific read." – Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author *Marie Claire's September Book Club Pick* Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning… Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she’s known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community’s past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block—her neighbor Theo. But Sydney and Theo’s deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised. When does coincidence become conspiracy? Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out? Can Sydney and Theo trust each other—or themselves—long enough to find out before they too disappear? Featured in Parade, Essence, Bustle, Popsugar, Elle, Shondaland, Marie Claire, Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, Good Housekeeping, Brit + Co, Real Simple, Lit Hub, Crime Reads, Blavity, Ms. Magazine, Hello Giggles, The New York Times, Town & Country, Newsweek, New York Post, Refinery29, Woman's World, Washington Post, the Skimm, Book Riot, Bookish, Huffington Post, and more!

Author : Robert Ji-Song Ku,Martin F. Manalansan,Anita Mannur
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781479869251

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Eating Asian America by Robert Ji-Song Ku,Martin F. Manalansan,Anita Mannur Pdf

Examines the ways our conceptions of Asian American food have been shaped Chop suey. Sushi. Curry. Adobo. Kimchi. The deep associations Asians in the United States have with food have become ingrained in the American popular imagination. So much so that contentious notions of ethnic authenticity and authority are marked by and argued around images and ideas of food. Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader collects burgeoning new scholarship in Asian American Studies that centers the study of foodways and culinary practices in our understanding of the racialized underpinnings of Asian Americanness. It does so by bringing together twenty scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum to inaugurate a new turn in food studies: the refusal to yield to a superficial multiculturalism that naively celebrates difference and reconciliation through the pleasures of food and eating. By focusing on multi-sited struggles across various spaces and times, the contributors to this anthology bring into focus the potent forces of class, racial, ethnic, sexual and gender inequalities that pervade and persist in the production of Asian American culinary and alimentary practices, ideas, and images. This is the first collection to consider the fraught itineraries of Asian American immigrant histories and how they are inscribed in the production and dissemination of ideas about Asian American foodways.

Author : Apa Publications
Publisher : Insight Guides
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 981258515X

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New York by Apa Publications Pdf

Compact Guide New York City includes a chapter detailing New York City's history and culture, 10 itineraries and excursions taking in sights ranging from the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty to the outer boroughs of Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island, leisure-time suggestions, and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. This guide also contains detailed maps and many remarkable photographs.