Gothic Follies

Download Gothic Follies full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Gothic Follies ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Gothic Follies

Author : Paragonas Vaunt
Publisher : Parafestation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gothic Follies by : Paragonas Vaunt

Download or read book Gothic Follies written by Paragonas Vaunt and published by Parafestation. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad scientists. Lightning-torn castles. Steam-powered love machines. Dread monsters. Supernatural demons lurking in ancient mountains. Eager imps and naughty goblins. And fair maidens with friskiness on their minds, pitting their wits and bodies against every erotic challenge. Included in this collection: Goblin Run (23k, available separately) On Midsummer’s Morn, the maidens come from afar, eager to try the Goblin Run and win a husband. A simple task it might seem, for all a girl needs to do to win is walk a thousand barefoot paces to the cathedral on the top of the hill and claim her man. But she had better not walk. She had better pick up her skirts, free her legs and RUN. Just as fast as she can. Because the goblins are on her trail… The Becoming (4k, new to this collection) Society reporter Archibald Cutwater reports all the developments of the Becoming Season, where society ladies queue to take part in debauchery with the greatest and most powerful innovations of the Industrial Revolution. Tonight Miss Emma Bulstrode meets the steam-powered Armstrong Concentrator, to the delight of all present, not least the willing Miss Bulstrode herself… Frank (17k, available separately) Good work is hard to find in 19th Century Bavaria. And assisting a sinister scientist in his lightning-swept castle laboratory is definitely not good work. So when Heidi Klein enters the service of a man hell-bent on creating monstrous life from bitter death, she knows she is assisting him with dread experiments which may be demeaning, dangerous, even downright embarrassing. But in deciding to make the best of her situation, the last thing Heidi expects is to become emotionally involved with the massive creature slumbering on that cold laboratory slab… Flapjack (3k, new to this collection) The Becoming Season reaches its peak, and society reporter Archibald Cutwater is there on the front-line to report on Miss Sarah Starker’s first encounter with Heneage Trelawny’s amazing new Pneumatic Flapjack, a love machine of quite rampant oscillating power… Imprudence (6k, previously published) The Maagdesgat mine is the heart of the most prosperous and wealthy family in the veldt, the source of its water, its workers and its wealth. But only the ladies of the household know the truth of the pact they have made with its impishly eager workforce… Current Affairs (9k, new to this collection) Sacked from his old reporting job for getting too involved with his work, journalist Archibald Cutwater is despatched to report on the innovative new installation of electric streetlights in Victorian London, the wonder of the technological age. But he is soon up to his old tricks, getting hands-on again at a private demonstration where Miss Florence Creswell is the first to meet the invigorating new electro-armatrix. But Cutwater finds that getting hands-on is only the start of his erotic perils… Guard Rail (34k, available separately) For Charlotte Beaumont, a new job working on an Alpine railway seems just the ticket. But even before night falls on her first day working for the mysterious De Mons Institute, she finds herself in peril, confronting a waspish teacher and her wayward students, while beset by strange voices that whisper to her from the shadows and plant lurid thoughts into her mind. What should have been a routine expedition soon becomes a journey of sinful self-discovery as one by one the maidens she has been employed to protect surrender their innocence to the dark spirit that dwells in the mountains. As the night crowds in around her and the girls she has sworn to defend take turns to debauch themselves eagerly with a supernatural force she can neither see nor comprehend, Charlotte comes to the dreadful, inescapable realisation that the price she must pay to defend her young charges may be the highest price of all…

The Story of Follies

Author : Celia Fisher
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789146364
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Story of Follies by : Celia Fisher

Download or read book The Story of Follies written by Celia Fisher and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated history of these quirky ornamental buildings in gardens across the globe. Are they frivolous or practical? Follies are buildings constructed primarily for decoration, but they suggest another purpose through their appearance. In this visually stunning book, Celia Fisher describes follies in their historical and architectural context, looks at their social and political significance, and highlights their relevance today. She explores follies built in protest, follies in Oriental and Gothic styles, animal-related follies, waterside follies and grottoes, and, finally, follies in glass and steel. Featuring many fine illustrations, from historical paintings to contemporary photographs and prints, and taking in follies from Great Britain to Ireland, throughout Europe, and beyond, The Story of Follies is an amusing and informative guide to fanciful, charming buildings.

Follies in America

Author : Kerry Dean Carso
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501755943
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Follies in America by : Kerry Dean Carso

Download or read book Follies in America written by Kerry Dean Carso and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.

The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Nick Groom
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191642398
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction by : Nick Groom

Download or read book The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction written by Nick Groom and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient tribe who sacked Rome to the alternative subculture of the present day. This unique Very Short Introduction reveals that the Gothic has predominantly been a way of understanding and responding to the past. Time after time, the Gothic has been invoked in order to reveal what lies behind conventional history. It is a way of disclosing secrets, whether in the constitutional politics of seventeenth-century England or the racial politics of the United States. While contexts change, the Gothic perpetually regards the past with fascination, both yearning and horrified. It reminds us that neither societies nor individuals can escape the consequences of their actions. The anatomy of the Gothic is richly complex and perversely contradictory, and so the thirteen chapters here range deliberately widely. This is the first time that the entire story of the Gothic has been written as a continuous history: from the historians of late antiquity to the gardens of Georgian England, from the mediaeval cult of the macabre to German Expressionist cinema, from Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy to American consumer society, from folk ballads to vampires, from the past to the present. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Gothic effigy

Author : David Annwn Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526101246
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gothic effigy by : David Annwn Jones

Download or read book Gothic effigy written by David Annwn Jones and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic effigy brings together for the first time the multifarious visual motifs and media associated with Gothic, many of which have never received serious study before. This guide is the most comprehensive work in its field, a study aid that draws links between a considerable array of Gothic visual works and artifacts, from the work of Salvator Rosa and the first illustrations of Gothic Blue Books to the latest Gothic painters and graphic artists. Currently popular areas such as Gothic fashion, gaming, T.V. and film are considered, as well as the ghostly images of magic lantern shows. This groundbreaking study will serve as an invaluable reference and research book. In its wide range and closely detailed descriptions, it will be very attractive for students, academics, collectors, fans of popular Gothic culture and general readers.

The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins

Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030845621
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins by : Clive Bloom

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins written by Clive Bloom and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research on the Gothic Revival. The Gothic Revival was based on emotion rather than reason and when Horace Walpole created Strawberry Hill House, a gleaming white castle on the banks of the Thames, he had to create new words to describe the experience of gothic lifestyle. Nevertheless, Walpole’s house produced nightmares and his book The Castle of Otranto was the first truly gothic novel, with supernatural, sensational and Shakespearean elements challenging the emergent fiction of social relationships. The novel’s themes of violence, tragedy, death, imprisonment, castle battlements, dungeons, fair maidens, secrets, ghosts and prophecies led to a new genre encompassing prose, theatre, poetry and painting, whilst opening up a whole world of imagination for entrepreneurial female writers such as Mary Shelley, Joanna Baillie and Ann Radcliffe, whose immensely popular books led to the intense inner landscapes of the Bronte sisters. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk created a new gothic: atheistic, decadent, perverse, necrophilic and hellish. The social upheaval of the French Revolution and the emergence of the Romantic movement with its more intense (and often) atheistic self-absorption led the gothic into darker corners of human experience with a greater emphasis on the inner life, hallucination, delusion, drug addiction, mental instability, perversion and death and the emerging science of psychology. The intensity of the German experience led to an emphasis on doubles and schizophrenic behaviour, ghosts, spirits, mesmerism, the occult and hell. This volume charts the origins of this major shift in social perceptions and completes a trilogy of Palgrave Handbooks on the Gothic—combined they provide an exhaustive survey of current research in Gothic studies, a go-to for students and researchers alike.

Follies of North & East Yorkshire

Author : Gwyn Headley
Publisher : Heritage Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1908619244
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Follies of North & East Yorkshire by : Gwyn Headley

Download or read book Follies of North & East Yorkshire written by Gwyn Headley and published by Heritage Ebooks. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Account of those Architectural Eccentricities commonly known as Follies to be found in the County

Gothic Antiquity

Author : Dale Townshend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198845669
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gothic Antiquity by : Dale Townshend

Download or read book Gothic Antiquity written by Dale Townshend and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first closely historicized study of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic and Romantic literature.

The English Folly

Author : Gwyn Headley
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800346727
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The English Folly by : Gwyn Headley

Download or read book The English Folly written by Gwyn Headley and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If this were a novel, the tales of astounding wealth, sexual perversion, murder, munificence, rape, insanity, brutality, slavery, religious mania, selfishness, snobbery, charity, suicide, generosity, theft, madness, wickedness, failure and eccentricity which unfold in these pages would be too concentrated to allow for the willing suspension of disbelief. All these sins and virtues, and more, are displayed by the characters in this book, some exhibiting several of them simultaneously. Folly builders were not as we are. They never built what we now call follies. They built for beauty, utility, improvement; it is only we, struggling after them with our imperfect understanding, who dismiss their prodigious constructions as follies. Follies can be found around the world, but England is their spiritual home. Having written the definitive books on follies in Great Britain, Benelux and the USA, Headley & Meulenkamp have turned their attention to the folly builders themselves, people so blinded by fashion or driven by some nameless ideology that they expended great fortunes on making their point in brick, stone and flint. Most follies are simply misunderstood buildings, and this book studies the motives, characters, decisions and delusions of their builders. If there was madness in their building, fortunately there was no method in it.

Monumental Follies

Author : Stuart Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Monumental Follies by : Stuart Barton

Download or read book Monumental Follies written by Stuart Barton and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic

Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030408663
Total Pages : 867 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic by : Clive Bloom

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic written by Clive Bloom and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.

My Dark Room

Author : Julie Park
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226824764
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis My Dark Room by : Julie Park

Download or read book My Dark Room written by Julie Park and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In what kinds of spaces do we become most aware of the thoughts in our own heads? My Dark Room is a book about the intimate sites of inner experience in eighteenth-century England and their role in the rise both of interiority and the novel. Julie Park considers sites such as grottos, cottages, closets, and especially the camera obscura, that beguiling enclosure into which the outside world is projected through a lens. This type of "dark room" and the projections within it serve Park as a paradigm for the fleeting states of interiority that eighteenth-century figures felt compelled to generate and experience. Park integrates material analyses of these "interior" spaces with close readings of novelistic and proto-novelistic texts. Taken together, these case studies amount to a fresh narrative of the novel's development as a genre of interiority from 1650 to 1811. They include Andrew Marvell's country house poem, Upon Appleton House; Margaret Cavendish's loosely fictional letters about domestic life, Sociable Letters, and the utopian fantasy/critique of the new science, The Blazing World; and Alexander Pope's long poem, Eloisa to Abelard. Park's innovative method of "spatial formalism" reveals how physical settings enable psychic interiors to achieve vitality in fictive and real lives"--

Mysteries Unlocked

Author : Curtis Evans
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616086
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mysteries Unlocked by : Curtis Evans

Download or read book Mysteries Unlocked written by Curtis Evans and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Last Bling King

Author : Mike Hockney
Publisher : Magus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Last Bling King by : Mike Hockney

Download or read book The Last Bling King written by Mike Hockney and published by Magus Books. This book was released on with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can fame be switched off? A group of revolutionaries called the League for the Liberation of Nobodies have concocted an ingenious plan and they've targeted the year's most glittering celebrity occasion: Oscar Night. The Last Bling King is the story of how ordinary men and women rose up against celebrities and the super rich, became the people they wanted to be, and changed the world forever. This is the 21st Century antidote to "Atlas Shrugged", Ayn Rand's best selling paean to wealth.

I Never Knew That About Ireland

Author : Christopher Winn
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448146070
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis I Never Knew That About Ireland by : Christopher Winn

Download or read book I Never Knew That About Ireland written by Christopher Winn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the ultimate trip around Ireland Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a fascinating journey around Ireland, to discover the tales buried deep in Irish history. Packed full of myths and legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, this fact book visits each of the four provinces - Ulster, Leinster, Munster and Connaught - and unearths the hidden gems that each county in these provinces holds. Discover where people and ideas were born, where dreams were inspired and where the unforgettable figures of Ireland's past now slumber. You'll be able to visit the holy mountain, Croagh Patrick in Country Mayo, where St Patrick is said to have driven all the snakes in Ireland into the sea. At Lismore Castle in County Waterford you will uncover the bathroom dedicated to Fred Astaire, whose sister Adele was the hugely popular Chatelaine of Lismore in the 1930s and 40s. On the winter solstice you can bathe in the sunlight that fills the burial chamber at Newgrange, County Meath - the oldest solar observatory in the world. This irresistible compendium of facts and stories will give you a captivating insight into the Irish, and the ideas and events that have shaped the individual identity of every place you visit, and will have you exclaiming again and again: 'Well, I never knew that!'

DK Eyewitness Back Roads Germany

Author : DK Eyewitness
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465465200
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis DK Eyewitness Back Roads Germany by : DK Eyewitness

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Back Roads Germany written by DK Eyewitness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey through the back roads of Germany to discover the area's real soul and charm. Twenty-four themed drives, each lasting one to five days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems, and authentic local experiences that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge and loaded with ideas for varied activities, from short walks and longer hikes to days on the beach or at a spa, to wine tours, cycling trips, and watersports. Meanwhile, the most friendly, best-value hotels and guesthouses, as well as restaurants specializing in regional produce, have been selected by expert authors. Discover the unexpected on your road trip with DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Back Roads Germany.

Lost Gardens of the World

Author : Sandra Lawrence
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 1836003870
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Lost Gardens of the World by : Sandra Lawrence

Download or read book Lost Gardens of the World written by Sandra Lawrence and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romantic illustrated journey through forty captivating gardens lost to time. All over the world, once-flourishing horticultural spaces have been abandoned and forgotten. From the once-crumbling grandeur of the Villa d’Este and the magic of the Lost Gardens of Heligan, to the sculptural surrealism of Las Pozas and the colourful rebirth of Le Jardin Majorelle, there are countless gardens around the world with fascinating stories to tell. Author and journalist Sandra Lawrence takes readers on a tour of 40 horticultural gems from around the world that have been lost either through neglect, abandonment or destruction. Many have been consigned to history, never to be seen again, while others have been revived and restored by the care and dedication of new owners and communities. These marvels of horticulture take many forms: stately homes, floating allotments, roof gardens and more. But all of them have one thing in common: the romance of paradise lost. Featuring commissioned illustrations of each garden by renowned artist Lucille Clerc, this book is a celebration of our love of nature, and the importance of keeping these oases of green alive and well – if not in reality, then at least on the page. These charming gardens are brought back to life, including: The Lost Gardens of Heligan, England Las Pozas, Mexico Le Jardin Majorelle, Morocco The Garden of Dreams, Nepal Villa d’Este, Italy Paleis Het Loo, Netherlands Crowninshield Garden, USA Discover the remarkable stories behind the creation, decline and occasional rebirth of these astonishing spaces, and meet the people and societies that first created and enjoyed them. The perfect gift for garden lovers, armchair travellers and cultural enthusiasts.