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Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The String of Pearls written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Preskett Prest
Publisher : Pulp-Lit Productions
ISBN 13 : 9781635916829
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Sweeney Todd, The Barber of Fleet-Street: Vol. I: Original Title: The String of Pearls written by Thomas Preskett Prest and published by Pulp-Lit Productions. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshly typeset in readable modern type with the original woodcut illustrations, this two-volume edition presents the full version of what's probably the most influential and notorious "Penny Dreadful" ever published: the one in which London was introduced to Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet-Street, and his pie-selling partner-in-crime, Mrs. Lovett. This edition is lightly footnoted to help the modern reader catch literary and pop-cultural references as well as slang terms that were familiar to 1840s Londoners, but are more obscure today.
Author : James Malcolm Rymer
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1398847895
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls written by James Malcolm Rymer and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venture into Fleet Street and discover the dark side of Victorian London where you'll encounter the demon barber Sweeney Todd and his menacing accomplice Mrs Lovett in this classic thriller. Gruesome mysteries are uncovered when Lieutenant Thornhill goes missing after entering Todd's barber shop for a haircut. Londoners are disappearing, Todd's young apprentice Tobias is subject to constant fear and abuse, and the barber's grows more peculiar as the days go by. Menace and murder abounds in this terrifying tale where criminals hide in plain sight and threaten to harm anyone who could get in the way of their schemes. Famously adapted to the big screen by Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd is a classic of British horror writing and its legendary villain remains iconic this day.
Author : Robert L. Mack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191607827
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Sweeney Todd written by Robert L. Mack and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ladies and Gentlemen...I have to state that Mrs Lovett's pies are made of human flesh!' This shocking announcement provides the stunning dénouement to a narrative first published over a period of four months in the winter of 1846-7. The revelation marked only the beginning, however, of the notorious career of Sweeney Todd, soon known to legend as the 'Demon Barber' of London's Fleet Street. The story of Todd's entrepreneurial partnership with neighbouring pie-maker Margery Lovett - at once inconceivably unpalatable and undeniably compelling - has subsequently provided the substance for a seemingly endless series of successful dramatic adaptations, popular songs and ballads, novellas, radio plays, graphic novels, ballets, films, and musicals. Both gleeful and ghoulish, the original tale of Sweeney Todd, first published under the title The String of Pearls, is an early classic of British horror writing. It combines the story of Todd's grisly method of robbing and dispatching his victims with a romantic sub-plot involving deception, disguise, and detective work, set against the backdrop of London's dark and unsavoury streets. This edition provides an authoritative text of the first version of the story ever to be published, as well as a lively introduction to its history and reputation.
Author : James Malcolm Rymer
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026898052
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The String of Pearls written by James Malcolm Rymer and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeney Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies sold at the pie shop of Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime. His barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Lovett's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. Todd dispatches his victims by pulling a lever while they are in his barber chair, which makes them fall backward down a revolving trapdoor and generally causes them to break their necks or skulls on the cellar floor below. If the victims are still alive, he goes to the basement and "polishes them off" by slitting their throats with his straight razor.
Author : James Malcolm Rymer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788834164952
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (649 download)
Download or read book The String of Pearls written by James Malcolm Rymer and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Anova Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861059895
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (598 download)
Download or read book Sweeney Todd written by Peter Haining and published by Anova Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Haining's definitive biography exposes the man behind the Sweeney Todd myth. Based on careful research of both fact and fictional accounts, Haining's book reveals a gruesome yet fascinating character. Previous ed.: 1998.
Author : JAMES MALCOLM. RYMER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033475287
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (752 download)
Download or read book STRING OF PEARLS, OR THE BARBER OF FLEET STREET written by JAMES MALCOLM. RYMER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Preskett Prest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The String of Pearls written by Thomas Preskett Prest and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Victorian sensation, featuring Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Author : Seán Michael Wilson
Publisher : Classical Comics: Original Tex
ISBN 13 : 9781907127090
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Sweeney Todd written by Seán Michael Wilson and published by Classical Comics: Original Tex. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents in graphic novel format an adaptation of the classic Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd, the barber who robbed and murdered his customers and disposed of their remains at the local bakery, where they were made into meat pies.
Author : James Rymer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781534791640
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The String of Pearls: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street written by James Rymer and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story, first published as a penny dreadful serial from 1846-47, from the authors of Varney the Vampire, features Sweeney Todd, the infamous "Demon Barber of Fleet Street," who here makes his literary debut.Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett.This is the original novel, the subject of which has later been adapted by several other writers; and is suspected to have had an origin in a real case in the Paris of the 1800's.
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Publisher : Fall River
ISBN 13 : 9781435157217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Penny Dreadfuls written by and published by Fall River. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 666 pages of shocking sensational stories from the Victorian era, twenty in all including such classics as James Malcolm Rymer's The String of Pearls or Sweeny Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet-Street, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, Guy De Maupassant's The Diary of a Madman or Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The original penny dreadfuls were cheaply printed, inexpensive publications written to titillate the masses with shocking thrills and lurid horrors. Over time, penny dreadful became a catch-phrase for any story steeped in gothic horror that pushed the limits of what was acceptable in popular fiction. In the stories compiled here, werewolves, ghouls, vampires, made doctor, carnivorous highwaymen, ancient Egyptian curses and reanimated corpses are just some of the horrors that the victims contend with.
Author : James Malcom Rymer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781675099728
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The String Of Pearls written by James Malcom Rymer and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is rumored that Sweeny Todd was a true character.The musical styles him as the Demon Barber of Fleet StreetThe original Sweeny Todd - A String of Pearls is a classic from 1846 that is set in Fleet Street in London. And was published a series of Penny Dreadfuls by Thomas Preskett Prest, the series has since been collected into a single novel that will have readers itching to find out the next dark twistA String of Pearls follows Sweeny Todd clearly showing his growing madness.He murders Johanna's suitor, which sets in motion the events that lead to his downfall.Sweeny Todd's dark agreement with Mrs. Lovett and her sinister pie shop has stunned Victorian and modern audiences alike.Johanna sets out to track her fiancée down and in that process, she will unearth a gruesome truth.Meanwhile, Toby, Sweeny's apprentice, will be driven mad by what he finds.Johanna's loyalty and bravery stand out all the more as she risks everything to find the demon barber's secret.Todd is a brilliant character - both compelling and horrifying - who has drawn people again and again into his story.As suspicion grows and Todd becomes more manic and terrifying and Mrs. Lovett grows more and more desperate, the two will drive each other further into darkness.
Author : James Malcolm Rymer
Publisher : Timaios Press
ISBN 13 : 9789187611186
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book The String of Pearls: Or, Sweeney Todd -- the Demon Barber of Fleet Street written by James Malcolm Rymer and published by Timaios Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the mystery novel that started it all: The gruesome legend about the "demon barber of Fleet Street." Many people still believe that Sweeney Todd and his aide, the pie-baking Mrs Lovett next door, were real people living at the turn of the century 1800, the time period in which the story is set, but The String of Pearls is in fact pure fantasy, based on a French myth which has been traced down to the 17th century, "The bloody legend about the barber and the patissier." The earliest known version of this myth can be found in a book from 1612, written by the priest Jaques du Breul. However, The String of Pearls is a very thrilling and suspenseful story in its own right. The novel was published anonymously as a serial in the penny magazine The People's Periodical and Family Library, in 1846-47. It was written by either James Malcolm Rymer (1814-84) or Thomas Peckett Prest (probably 1810-59), but presumably by both in collaboration. Rymer and Prest were the kings of "penny dreadful," also responsible for Varney the Vampyre (1845-47), the most successful penny dreadful ever and a precursor to Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191566306
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, US & Canada Ed written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ladies and Gentlemen...I have to state that Mrs Lovett' s pies are made OF human flesh ! ' This shocking announcement provides the stunning d' enouement TO a narrative first published OVER a period OF four months IN the winter OF 1846 - 7. The revelation marked ONLY the beginning, however, OF the notorious career OF Sweeney Todd, soon known TO legend AS the ' Demon Barber ' OF London ' s Fleet Street.The story OF Todd ' s entrepreneurial partnership WITH neighbouring pie - maker Margery Lovett - at ONCE inconceivably unpalatable AND undeniably compelling - has subsequently provided the substance FOR a seemingly endless series OF successful dramatic adaptations, popular songs AND ballads, novellas, radio plays, graphic novels, ballets, films, AND musicals.Both gleeful AND ghoulish, the original tale OF Sweeney Todd, first published under the title The String OF Pearls, IS an early classic OF British horror writing.It combines the story OF Todd 's grisly method of robbing and dispatching his victims with a romantic sub-plot involving deception, disguise, and detective work, set against the backdrop of London' s dark AND unsavoury streets.This edition provides an authoritative text OF the first version OF the story ever TO be published, AS well AS a lively introduction TO its history AND reputation.
Author : Thomas Prest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781533284365
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (843 download)
Download or read book The String of Pearls: the Original Tale of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street written by Thomas Prest and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the book that sparked the legend. Look beyond the musical to the real tale of the demon barber of Fleet Street. The myth of Sweeny Todd has long been speculated to come from a true story and this novel, written at the height of the legend, is perhaps as close to the truth as it is possible to get. The original Sweeny Todd - A String of Pearls is a classic from 1846 that is set in the dark underbelly of London. Written as a series of Penny Dreadfuls by Thomas Preskett Press, the series has since been collected into a single novel that will have readers itching to find out the next dark twist. See the characters as you have never seen them before, the way they first appeared. A String of Pearls follows Sweeny Todd as he descends deeper and deeper into madness. Having murdered Johanna's suitor, Sweeny sets in motion the events that lead to his downfall. Johanna sets out to track her fiancée down and in that process she will unearth a gruesome truth. Meanwhile Toby, Sweeny's apprentice, will be driven mad by what he finds. Sweeny Todd's dark agreement with Mrs Lovett and her sinister pie shop has stunned Victorian and modern audiences alike. This classic and brilliant novel will take you back through time and show you a past filled with tragedy and beauty as Johanna goes in search of her lost love. Johanna's loyalty and bravery stand out all the more as she risks everything to find the demon barber's secret. Todd is a brilliant character - both compelling and horrifying - who has drawn people again and again into his story. As suspicion grows and Todd becomes more manic and terrifying and Mrs Lovett grows more and more desperate, the two will drive each other further into darkness. Through the years this timeless tale has captured the imagination. The world over, A String of Pearls is a classic that went on to spawn both a hit musical and an Oscar-winning movie. Thomas Preskett Prest (1810-1859) was a British writer, journalist and musician. He was a prolific producer of penny dreadfuls. He wrote under several pseudonyms including Bos, a takeoff of Charles Dickens' own pen name, Boz. Before joining Edward Lloyd's publishing factory, Prest had made a name for himself as a talented musician and composer. Albion Press is an imprint of Endeavour Press, the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.
Author : Arun Joshi
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 8122207162
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Strange Case of Billy Biswas written by Arun Joshi and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strange Case of Billy Biswas is a compellingly thought provoking novel. A novel in which the normal and the abnormal, the ordinary and the extraordinary, illusion and reality, resignation and desire rub shoulders. The protagonist, Billy Biswas, is a man of extraordinary passions. He has everything going for him — education, wealth, status, travel, and a loving wife. Yet his inner world is rocked by a groundswell of discontent. He is consumed by a restlessness which grows steadily... Characterised by great elan and sophistication, the narrative unfolds in quick succession, and would be hard to believe were it not related in such a matter of fact, down to earth manner. 'In Joshi's hands we are swept into the unknown...' — The Times Literary Supplement, London
