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Book Synopsis Death of Mr Punch by : Jonathan Carter
Download or read book Death of Mr Punch written by Jonathan Carter and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George is a reluctant resident of Bayview Care Home. Increasingly haunted by memories and hounded by ghosts, he is determined to return to his wife Judy, which won't happen if the motley crew of Bayview have anything to do with it: foul-mouthed Clarissa, television-obsessed Perry, depressed June (who may or may not be Satan), winking poet Bernard and geriatric Elvis impersonator Upton Silver are set to frustrate his efforts to leave. George has little choice but to bide his time by vandalizing cars and enticing residents to sneeze their teeth out. Freedom, when it comes, brings its problems in the form of a busker with a grudge and a psychotic clown who pursues him as he heads for the house in which he and Judy used to live. Alternately chilling, moving and comic, Jonathan Carter's novel grips the reader in a vice as tight as Mr. Punch's embrace.
Book Synopsis The Tragical Comedy Or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch by : Neil Gaiman
Download or read book The Tragical Comedy Or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch written by Neil Gaiman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic graphic novel - a dark fable of childhood and growing up.
Book Synopsis Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by : Charles L. Graves
Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of Modern England written by Charles L. Graves and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles L. Graves
Download or read book Mr Punch written by Bill Ridgway and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2001 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The puppet looked just like the ones you see on a seaside holiday. But this Mr Punch had taken on a murderous life of his own.
Book Synopsis Mr. Punch's History of Modern England: 1874-1892 by : Charles Larcom Graves
Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of Modern England: 1874-1892 written by Charles Larcom Graves and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mr. Punch's History of the great war. by :
Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of the great war. written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by : Charles Larcom Graves
Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of Modern England written by Charles Larcom Graves and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mr. Punch's History of Modern England: 1841-1857 by : Charles Larcom Graves
Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of Modern England: 1841-1857 written by Charles Larcom Graves and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by : Charles Larcom Graves
Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of the Great War written by Charles Larcom Graves and published by London : Cassell. This book was released on 1920 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of exerpts from Punch Magazine articles about World War I. Reprinted in the United States by Frederick Stokes.
Book Synopsis Mr. Punch's History of Modern England: 1892-1914 by : Charles Larcom Graves
Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of Modern England: 1892-1914 written by Charles Larcom Graves and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mr. Punch's History of Modern England (Vol. 1-4) by : Charles L. Graves
Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of Modern England (Vol. 1-4) written by Charles L. Graves and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 1674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punch's History of Modern England is a unique review of the English customs, traditions, education, nobility, courts, fashion, culture, and personalities entirely based on the articles from Punch, the British satirical journal. As the author mentions in the preface, "The Files of Punch have been generally admitted to be a valuable mine of information of the manners, customs and fashions f the Victorian age." This is one of the best examples of Victorian-era humor prose and gives a unique insight into the history of England outside political matters._x000D_ _x000D_
Book Synopsis Mr. Punch's History of Modern England: 1857-1874 by : Charles Larcom Graves
Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of Modern England: 1857-1874 written by Charles Larcom Graves and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr. Punch's Victorian Era written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spaces of Puppets in Popular Culture by : Janet Banfield
Download or read book Spaces of Puppets in Popular Culture written by Janet Banfield and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length exploration of geographical engagement with puppets examines constructions of puppets in contemporary popular British culture and considers the various ways in which puppets and humans (not just puppeteers) are unified in diverse cultural media. Organised around themes of metaphorical, performative and transformational puppets, the work draws out how puppets are used in diverse cultural media (fiction, music, television, film and theatre), how they are constructed through those uses, and to what effect. Both puppets as generalised forms (bodily, relational or ideational) and specific puppet characters (Mr Punch, Pinocchio) are explored. Building upon existing associations between puppets and the grotesque, the volume extends understandings of the puppet by elaborating borderscaping strategies through which puppets are constructed and an alternative perspective on the uncanniness of puppets. Geographically, it unearths distinct puppet spatialities, identifies the socially critical potential of puppets, rescales geo/bio-politics at the interpersonal level, and highlights the potential of puppets within posthuman debates about the status of the human. This work will be of interest to anyone fascinated by puppets, as well as those in fields such as geography, anthropology, cultural and media studies, and those interested in the grotesque, posthumanism and/or non-representational scholarship.
Book Synopsis Mr. Punch's History of Modern England. Volume 2 of 4.—1857-1874 by : Charles Graves
Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of Modern England. Volume 2 of 4.—1857-1874 written by Charles Graves and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. III—1874-1892 (of 4 ) (Illustrations) by : Charles Larcom Graves
Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. III—1874-1892 (of 4 ) (Illustrations) written by Charles Larcom Graves and published by CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Example in this ebook PART I THE NATIONAL OUTLOOK HIGH POLITICS The pageant of the Victorian age reached its grand climacteric in the period on which we now enter. As a "drum and trumpet chronicle" the history of the eighteen years from 1874 to 1892 was void of any British military operations on the grand scale. Of the names Kandahar, Maiwand, Isandhlwana, Majuba, Khartoum and Tel-el-Kebir only the first and last minister to our complacency. Yet the achievements of Lord Roberts in the two Afghan campaigns were splendid examples of bold leadership and British endurance, and Lord Wolseley's suppression of the revolt of Arabi was more than efficient. In the mid 'seventies Germany came perilously near forcing a fresh war on France; but the influence of the British Crown and Government was largely instrumental in averting the calamity. We were twice on the verge of war with Russia in 1878, first in April after the Treaty of San Stefano at the close of the Russo-Turkish war, and second in July over Russia's intervention in Afghanistan. The country was divided, for while there had been a revival of the old distrust of Russia, Gladstone had thrown the whole weight of his influence into the campaign of protest against the "Bulgarian atrocities." The Government, on the whole, steered a middle course between the "Jingoes" and those who supported Gladstone's "bag and baggage" policy towards the Turks. At the height of the Tory Press campaign against Russia, Lord Salisbury, in a speech in the City, observed: "It has been generally acknowledged to be madness to go to war for an idea, but it is yet more unsatisfactory to go to war against a nightmare." Punch, who was never pro-Russian, but at the moment was strongly anti-Turk, interpreted this saying as a caution against Jingo scaremongering. In one of the earliest of his cartoons on the possibility of war over the Eastern question, he represented Disraeli standing on the edge of a precipice with Britannia, asking her to move "just a leetle nearer." Britannia declines to move one inch farther, adding, "I'm a good deal nearer than is pleasant already." But four months later, in May, 1878, when he showed Britannia between two advisers, Disraeli and Bright—the former wearing a sword camouflaged with an olive wreath—Punch supported neither, but applauded the third Voice, that of Neutrality. Professorial intervention he resented strongly; and severely rebuked Freeman, the historian, for a violent and unpatriotic speech. In fine, he was equally down on the blatant bunkum of the music-halls and the ill-considered agitation of fussy Pacificists; on War-Donkeys and Peace-Donkeys; "Asses are asses, whether bound in Lion or in Calf." But if in Europe Great Britain never got beyond the stage of naval demonstrations and the summoning of troops from India, these eighteen years were not devoid of great as well as spectacular events. They opened with the triumphant return to power of Disraeli, admirably symbolized in Tenniel's great cartoon of the chariot driver and his fallen rival, and with his efforts to translate into practical politics his grandiose doctrines of Imperialism. He made the Queen Empress of India, he riveted our hold on the Suez Canal by the opportune purchase of the Khedive's shares in 1875; he claimed to have brought back "Peace with Honour" from the Berlin Congress of 1878, the year which marked the zenith of his power and the beginning of its decline. The twelve years that followed Gladstone's success at the polls in 1880 were crowded with momentous events; the rise and ferment of the new nationalities abroad; the advent of new champions and gladiators in the political arena at home—Parnell and Randolph Churchill and Chamberlain. To be continue in this ebook
Book Synopsis The Invention of Murder by : Judith Flanders
Download or read book The Invention of Murder written by Judith Flanders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.
