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Author : George Challis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Pirates
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047910711
Author : Max Brand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:11874484
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 2144 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : American drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063357235
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 23 : Nos. 1-128 (Issued April, 1926 - March, 1927)
Author : Lee Server
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438109121
Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011809303
Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author : James L. Robertson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496819970
James L. Robertson focuses on folk encountering their constitutions and laws, in their courthouses and country stores, and in their daily lives, animating otherwise dry and inaccessible parchments. Robertson begins at statehood and continues through war and depression, well into the 1940s. He tells of slaves petitioning for freedom, populist sentiments fueling abnegation of the rule of law, the state's many schemes for enticing Yankee capital to lift a people from poverty, and its sometimes tragic, always colorful romance with whiskey after the demise of national Prohibition. Each story is sprinkled with fascinating but heretofore unearthed facts and circumstances. Robertson delves into the prejudices and practices of the times, local landscapes, and daily life and its dependence on our social compact. He offers the unique perspective of a judge, lawyer, scholar, and history buff, each role having tempered the lessons of the others. He focuses on a people, enriching encounters most know little about. Tales of understanding and humanity covering 130 years of heroes, rascals, and ordinary folk--with a bundle of engaging surprises--leave the reader pretty sure there's nothing quite like Mississippi history told by a sage observer.
Author : James A. Michener,A. Grove Day
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780812986860
In a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific. Co-written with A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise offers portraits of ten scandalous men and women, some infamous and some overlooked, including Sam Comstock, a mutinous sailor whose delusions of grandeur became a nightmare; Will Mariner, a golden-haired youth who used his charm to win over his captors; and William Bligh, the notorious HMS Bounty captain who may not have been the monster history remembers him as. From lifelong buccaneers to lapsed noblemen, in Michener and Day’s capable hands these rogues become the stuff of legend. Praise for Rascals in Paradise “The best book about those far-scattered islands that has appeared in a long time . . . a portfolio of rare and ruthless personalities that is calculated to make the curliest hair stand straight on end.”—The New York Times “[Combines] research and scholarship (A. Grove Day was a professor at the University of Hawaii) with a gift for spinning a yarn and depicting character (Michener, journalist and novelist, needs no introduction).”—Kirkus Reviews
Author : Joseph McArdle
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780717168057
Irish history is littered with rogues, larger-than-life characters who range from cheeky scamps to vicious chancers. In Irish Rogues and Rascals, Joseph MacArdle looks at some of the most notorious Irishmen to find out just exactly what a 'rogue' is. Is it a dastardly knave, a cheeky rascal or a devilish trickster? Is it a lovable scamp or is it someone who is charming and delightful but with a bit of mischievousness and sauciness thrown into the mix as well? Whatever the answer, the fascinating collection of Irish rogues in Joseph McArdle's hilarious book Irish Rogues and Rascals embraces vicious chancers at one extreme and lovable imps at the other. These Irish rogues and rascals range from Myler Magrath, a sixteenth-century character who loved wine, women and money – and who was both Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor and Protestant Archbishop of Cashel at the same time through to Tiger Roche, the infamous eighteenth-century rake and duellist who drank and fought his way from Ireland to Cape Town. They include more modern figures such as Paul Singer, a fraudster who tricked countless people out of their hard-earned money in the 1950s, and Des Traynor, the mastermind of Irish tax evasion schemes for much of the late twentieth century , and not forgetting the most accomplished political rogue of modern times, Charles J. Haughey. Joseph McArdle writes with affection about his colourful rogues, usually seeing more to admire in their cleverness and brazenness than to deplore in the results of their conduct. His rogues may not always be honourable – but they usually are fun and their stories make compelling reading. Irish Rogues and Rascals: Table of Contents Preface - The spinning bishop: Myler Magrath - Eighteenth-century rogues: Garrett Byrne, James Strange, John M'Naghtan - Fighting Fitzgerald: George Robert Fitzgerald - This wicked prelate: Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry - Tiger Roche and the giant wheel - The jewels in the crowns: Colonel Blood and Francis Shackleton - The Sinn Fein irreconcilable: Robert Erskine Childers - Speak some good of the dead: John DeLorean - The deadly charmer: James H. Lehman - The man with the golden touch: Paul Singer - Tear him for his bad verses: Francis Stuart - The tribunal rogues: Charles Haughey, Des Traynor, Patrick Gallagher, Ray Burke, Liam Lawlor
Author : Nancy Huston Banks
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781421839912
The Beautiful River grows very wide in making its great bend around western Kentucky. On the other side, its shores are low for many miles, but well guarded by giant cottonwoods. These spectral trees stand close to its brink and stretch their phantom arms
Author : Frederick Schiller Faust
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066369392
"Valley Vultures" by Frederick Schiller Faust is a western novel. When all hell breaks loose in America's lawless West territory of the Valley, Prince Charlie Dexter returns to exact revenge against Scorpio, an unscrupulous murderer. Quick with a gun and desperate to get vengeance, Dexter is ready to serve this criminal the justice and payback he so rightly deserves in this classic, fast-paced action adventure tale.
Author : August Strindberg
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547596561
Plays by August Strindberg, Fourth Series by August Strindberg is a continuation of Strindberg's series of plays, showcasing his unique approach to drama, character development, and storytelling. This series further cements Strindberg's position as a master playwright, offering readers a deep dive into human emotions and relationships.
Author : C. T. Hsia,Wai-yee Li,George Kao
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780231537346
This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), a period considered the golden age of Chinese theater. By turns lyrical and earthy, sentimental and ironic, Yuan drama spans a broad emotional, linguistic, and stylistic range. Combining sung arias with declaimed verses and doggerels, dialogues and mime, and jokes and acrobatic feats, Yuan drama formed a vital part of China's culture of performance and entertainment in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. To date, few Yuan-dynasty plays have been translated into English. Well-known translators and scholars have supervised the making of this collection and add a short description to each play. A general introduction situates all selections within their cultural and historical contexts.
Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199557660
Includes the poem, Nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Author : Roscoe Crist
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : 9781598584394
In August of 1862, 27 year-old Edwin R. Fish enlisted as a Union Solder fighting for what he believed to be a just and noble cause; the protection of his family and the solidarity of his nation. Travel with us now back to 1862. The nation is being torn apart by civil war and thousands of brave young men are being asked to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country. they are being asked to risk their lives in service to a President who is committed to a strong, prosperous and free United States of America. The story is told through the actual letters Edwin R. Fish wrote and sent to his wife, Lucy, over the course of 15 months. These inspiring and sometimes tragic letters, written as he served valiantly off the sea islands of the Carolinas, are the basis and the very heartbeat of an intriguing Civil War story.
Author : Trudy Irene Scee
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608932870
Many nefarious characters have passed through Maine on their way to infamy, including the pirates Dixie Bull and Blackbeard (Edward Teach), and gangster Al Brady, who was gunned down by G-men in the streets of Bangor. The rogues and scoundrels assembled in this book, however, are either Maine natives or notorious individuals whose mischief, misdeeds, or mayhem were perpetrated in the Pine Tree State.