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Download or read book The Berry Scene written by Dornford Yates and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories, written in response to huge popular demand, give us classic Berry Pleydell at the top of his form. The first story sees Berry capturing a German spy at a village cricket match in 1914, and things get more bizarre from then on. A self-consciously nostalgic work consisting of tense plotting and high farce of the best kind.
Download or read book The Berry Scene written by Dornford Yates and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories, written in response to huge popular demand, give us classic Berry Pleydell at the top of his form. The first story sees Berry capturing a German spy at a village cricket match in 1914, and things get more bizarre from then on. A self-consciously nostalgic work consisting of tense plotting and high farce of the best kind.
Book Synopsis Johnny B. Bad by : Stephanie Bennett
Download or read book Johnny B. Bad written by Stephanie Bennett and published by Vireo Book, A. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, Chuck Berry starred in the seminal music documentaryChuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, which profiled the legend during a star-studded concert celebrating his sixtieth birthday. Now, on the heels of Berry's death, comes the complete story behind one of America's most enduring and embattled icons. Compiled as an oral history by the film's producer, Stephanie Bennett,Johnny B. Bad combines interviews from the film's participants, including its music director-- Keith Richards. These unique interviews and accounts paint a vivid and multifaceted picture of the artist. Berry was at once a witty, articulate genius, now widely considered the godfather of rock and roll; a shrewd businessman, who had no trouble endlessly renegotiating contracts and refusing to perform until additional cash was gathered up; and also a convicted criminal, who in addition to serving time inprison for transporting a minor across state lines for "immoral purposes" had also been accused of sexual assault and sued in civil court for installing cameras in the restroom of the Southern Air, a restaurant he owned in Wentzville, Missouri.
Book Synopsis ˜Theœ Berry scene by : Dornford Yates
Download or read book ˜Theœ Berry scene written by Dornford Yates and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Scene of Harlem Cabaret by : Shane Vogel
Download or read book The Scene of Harlem Cabaret written by Shane Vogel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlem's nightclubs in the 1920s and '30s were a crucible for testing society's racial and sexual limits. Combining performance theory, historical research, and biographical study, this title explores the role of nightlife performance as a definitive touchstone for understanding the racial and sexual politics of the early 20th century.
Book Synopsis Beachbum Berry Remixed by : Jeff Berry
Download or read book Beachbum Berry Remixed written by Jeff Berry and published by SLG Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berry features 40 newly discovered, previously unpublished vintage Tiki drinkrecipes from the 1930s-1960s.
Book Synopsis Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James: The Infamous Western Outlaws by : Joseph A. Dacus
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James: The Infamous Western Outlaws written by Joseph A. Dacus and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story describes the life and adventures of the American's most famous bandits that were a model for hundreds of westerns, books and movies. The book accounts for Frank and Jessy's most famous cases, such as the Russellville Bank robbery, the Gallatin Bank tragedy, the first attempts to arrest the boys, a series of train robberies, and the robbery of the Huntington Bank in Virginia followed by their rides to Mexico. Besides the account of their historically recorded events, the author gives many exciting insights into their personal lives, like finding love, marrying, and attempting to leave a peaceful life after the Civil War. In this book, the guys are portrayed as cruel criminals and fearless adventure seekers and opportunists.
Book Synopsis Novelists Against Social Change by : Kate Macdonald
Download or read book Novelists Against Social Change written by Kate Macdonald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put their fears and anxieties into their best-selling fiction. Resisting the threats of change in social class, politics, the freedom of women, and professionalization produced their strongest works.
Book Synopsis The Brother Of Daphne by : Dornford Yates
Download or read book The Brother Of Daphne written by Dornford Yates and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daphne is ‘well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright’. In this, Yates’ earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures. It is a world of Edwardian gentility and accomplished farce that brought the author instant fame when the stories appeared in ‘Windsor Magazine’.
Book Synopsis Perishable Goods by : Dornford Yates
Download or read book Perishable Goods written by Dornford Yates and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Yates, this novel featuring the suave Richard Chandos was warmly received by critics. Typically deft, pacey and amusing, it ‘contains every crime in the calendar and a heart-rending finale’ (A J Smithers). A companion novel to ‘Blind Corner’, ‘Blood Royal’, ‘An Eye For A Tooth’ and ‘Fire Below’. Gripping stuff.
Download or read book Jonah And Co. written by Dornford Yates and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are some of Yates’ early short stories featuring the comic Pleydell clan, and on publication proved just a successful and popular as Berry and Co had been. They describe the chaotic journey of the young, well-to-do heroes as they cavort across France, and helped to establish Yates’ reputation as a master of humorous fiction.
Book Synopsis She Painted Her Face by : Dornford Yates
Download or read book She Painted Her Face written by Dornford Yates and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tautly written and exciting yarn published when Yates was at the height of his powers, this is a real potboiler of the very best kind – tension, cliffhangers, wit and pace. Both a thriller and a humorous romance, the book draws heavily on the author’s own (somewhat bitter) experiences. A great read.
Download or read book Cost Price written by Dornford Yates and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story from Dornford Yates’ later career, of stolen treasure, set against a backdrop of World War II: adventure, a travelling circus and much more besides. Lots of favourite characters here, as well as new ones, and a few striking villains. It is the legendary Chandos’ final fictional appearance. A tense, assured plot and vintage comedy.
Download or read book Gale Warning written by Dornford Yates and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Mansel, one of Yates’ most popular characters, heads a small private organisation dedicated to the detection of serious crime ‘by methods sadly unavailable to the regular police’. An aristocratic member of his team is murdered and the avengers set out in pursuit of the killer, in a tale of ‘violence and a measure of sublimated sex’.
Book Synopsis An Eye For A Tooth by : Dornford Yates
Download or read book An Eye For A Tooth written by Dornford Yates and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the way home having captured Axel the Red’s treasure, dapper Jonathan Mansel happens upon a corpse in the road. There ensues a gripping tale of adventure and vengeance. On publication this novel was such a hit that it was reprinted six times in its first year, and assured Yates’ huge popularity. A classic Richard Chandos thriller.
Book Synopsis She Fell Among Thieves by : Dornford Yates
Download or read book She Fell Among Thieves written by Dornford Yates and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vintage thriller featuring the welcome return of Richard Chandos, dashing hero extraordinaire, who seeks to rescue a young girl who has been kidnapped and drugged by a sinister old woman in the mountains of the Pyrenées. A gripping read originally published in serial form, ‘She Fell Among Thieves’ was a huge hit when it first appeared.
Download or read book Fire Below written by Dornford Yates and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Chandos makes a welcome return in this classic adventure story. Suave and decadent, he leads his friends into forbidden territory to rescue a kidnapped (and very attractive) young widow. Yates gives us a highly dramatic, almost operatic, plot and unforgettably vivid characters.
