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Book Synopsis Not a History of Deacon Brodie by : Brodie Byron
Download or read book Not a History of Deacon Brodie written by Brodie Byron and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun book full of short personal thoughts, facts, reminiscences, observations and verse. A healthy dose of Edinburgh and Leith references are included, although just about everywhere between Tierra del Fuego and Australia seems also to get a mention.
Book Synopsis Not a History of Deacon Brodie by : Byron Brodie
Download or read book Not a History of Deacon Brodie written by Byron Brodie and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun book full of short personal thoughts, facts, reminiscences, observations and verse. A healthy dose of Edinburgh and Leith references are included, although just about everywhere between Tierra del Fuego and Australia seems also to get a mention.
Book Synopsis Trial of Deacon Brodie by : William Brodie
Download or read book Trial of Deacon Brodie written by William Brodie and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... DEACON BRODIE. INTRODUCTION. Few cities have preserved more faithfully than Edinburgh the traditions of former days, and none is richer in the material of romance. Throughout the length of the Royal mile extending from Holyrood to the Castle Hill, each tortuous wynd and narrow close owns its peculiar association, each obscure court and towering "land" has contributed, if but by a footnote, to the volume of the city's history. And where these visible memorials have perished beneath the slow assault of time, or succumbed to the more lethal methods of modern improvement, the legends which they embodied survive their dissolution and serve in turn to perpetuate their fame. Of the many memories that haunt the lover of old Edinburgh, wandering to-day among the vestiges of her romantic and insanitary past, perhaps the most curious is that of William Brodie, Deacon of the Wrights and doyen of the double life; by day "a considerable house carpenter" and member of the Town Council; by night a housebreaker and the companion of thieves. It is nearly a hundred and twenty years since Deacon Brodie played out his twofold part at the west end of the Luckenbooths one grey October afternoon in 1788; but the close in the Lawnmarket which bears his name remains to this day. Here he was born and lived, man and boy, robber and decent burgess, for many reputable years; here his old father passed away, happy in the possession of so excellent a son; and from hence did the son essay that " last fatal" adventure, the issue of which was, for him, discovery and the scaffold. The house itself has long since vanished--a victim to the indiscriminate destruction which has swept away so much else worthy of preservation. You can no longer see the heavy oaken door with the...
Download or read book Deacon Brodie written by David Hutchison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When respected Gentleman and City Councillor, Deacon William Brodie, chases his love of gambling, he is drawn deep into a double life. Before long the open respectability of day gives way to a hidden life of crime at night, and soon, Brodie is on a trajectory to disaster - one which leads him to the gibbet. Set in the Edinburgh of 1788, Deacon Brodie: A Double Life is a fact-based novel which shows Brodie's love for gambling and risk sweeping him into a life of crime. Betrayed by an accomplice, and revealed as a "Gentleman by day, thief by night", Brodie escapes the city, is captured in Holland, then faced with a trial before a city where once he was a leading citizen. When he is sentenced to be hanged, his closest friend has a different idea and, in full view of everyone, Brodie takes his riskiest gamble yet . . .
Download or read book Deacon Brodie written by John S. Gibson and published by The Saltire Society. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deacon Brodie, pillar of the Establishment turned arch-criminal, terrified late-18th-century Edinburgh. This book tells of the two Edinburghs - the respectable lawyers' capital and the lurid underworld of thieves and whores - in which Brodie led his dual existence, culminating in the armed theft of Scotland's revenues and Brodie's escape to Holland, whence he was brought back to be tried and executed. This extraordinary tale gave rise to the idea of Jekyll and Hyde in the fertile imagination of Robert Louis Stevenson almost a century later.
Book Synopsis Trial of Deacon Brodie by : William Roughead
Download or read book Trial of Deacon Brodie written by William Roughead and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by : Muriel Spark
Download or read book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie written by Muriel Spark and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A perfect book”—and basis for the Maggie Smith film—about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune). “Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!” So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to mold—and she doesn’t stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan for them all, including how they will live, whom they will love, and what sacrifices they will make to uphold her ideals. When the girls reach adulthood and begin to find their own destinies, Jean Brodie’s indelible imprint is a gift to some, and a curse to others. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Spark’s masterpiece, a novel that offers one of twentieth-century English literature’s most iconic and complex characters—a woman at once admirable and sinister, benevolent and conniving. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland.
Book Synopsis The English Historical Review by : Mandell Creighton
Download or read book The English Historical Review written by Mandell Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Famous Trials of History by : F. E. Smith
Download or read book Famous Trials of History written by F. E. Smith and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872-1930) was a lawyer and Conservative politician, and a great personal friend of Winston Churchill's.
Book Synopsis The Trial of William Brodie by : William Brodie
Download or read book The Trial of William Brodie written by William Brodie and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Minds behind the Brain : A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries by : Department of Psychology Washington University Stanley Finger Professor
Download or read book Minds behind the Brain : A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries written by Department of Psychology Washington University Stanley Finger Professor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000-03-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attractively illustrated with over a hundred halftones and drawings, this volume presents a series of vibrant profiles that trace the evolution of our knowledge about the brain. Beginning almost 5000 years ago, with the ancient Egyptian study of "the marrow of the skull," Stanley Finger takes us on a fascinating journey from the classical world of Hippocrates, to the time of Descartes and the era of Broca and Ramon y Cajal, to modern researchers such as Sperry. Here is a truly remarkable cast of characters. We meet Galen, a man of titanic ego and abrasive disposition, whose teachings dominated medicine for a thousand years; Vesalius, a contemporary of Copernicus, who pushed our understanding of human anatomy to new heights; Otto Loewi, pioneer in neurotransmitters, who gave the Nazis his Nobel prize money and fled Austria for England; and Rita Levi-Montalcini, discoverer of nerve growth factor, who in war-torn Italy was forced to do her research in her bedroom. For each individual, Finger examines the philosophy, the tools, the books, and the ideas that brought new insights. Finger also looks at broader topics--how dependent are researchers on the work of others? What makes the time ripe for discovery? And what role does chance or serendipity play? And he includes many fascinating background figures as well, from Leonardo da Vinci and Emanuel Swedenborg to Karl August Weinhold--who claimed to have reanimated a dead cat by filling its skull with silver and zinc--and Mary Shelley, whose Frankenstein was inspired by such experiments. Wide ranging in scope, imbued with an infectious spirit of adventure, here are vivid portraits of giants in the field of neuroscience--remarkable individuals who found new ways to think about the machinery of the mind.
Book Synopsis Deacon Brodie by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Deacon Brodie written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Brodie (28 September 1741 - 1 October 1788), more commonly known by his prestigious title of Deacon Brodie, was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of a trades guild and Edinburgh city councillor, who maintained a secret life as a burglar, partly for the thrill, and partly to fund his gambling. Stevenson remained fascinated by the dichotomy between Brodie's respectable facade, and his real nature and was inspired to write The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)."
Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Academy and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Now a Terrifying Motion Picture! by : James F. Broderick
Download or read book Now a Terrifying Motion Picture! written by James F. Broderick and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the relationship between twenty-five enduring works of horror literature and the classic films that have been adapted from them. Each chapter delves into the historical and cultural background of a particular type of horror--hauntings, zombies, aliens and more--and provides an overview of a specific work's critical and popular reception. Among the print-to-film titles discussed are Frankenstein, Dracula, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Masque of the Red Death, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Phantom of the Opera, Psycho, The Exorcist, and The Shining.
Book Synopsis Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature by :
Download or read book Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 2134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Man Who Was Jekyll and Hyde by : Rick Wilson
Download or read book Man Who Was Jekyll and Hyde written by Rick Wilson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a respected cabinet-maker and councillor by day – but Deacon William Brodie changed into a sinister, thieving monster when darkness fell on the old city of Edinburgh.Cleverly employing his respectable reputation to access the richest members of society before stealing from them as a masked burglar, he used the resulting illicit money to fund yet another life – with five children and two mistresses.But Brodie – whose chilling story inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to create the classic tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde about a century later – came fatally unstuck when a captured accomplice informed on him. Then neither his ill-gotten gains nor his steel collar designed to cheat the hangman could save him...Author Rick Wilson offers a warts-and-all biography of Brodie, from his relatively innocent young years through to his public disgrace and execution... hanging on the very gallows he conceived himself.
