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The Devil in a Domino (Valancourt Classics)

Author : Chas L'Epine
Publisher : Valancourt Books
ISBN 13 : 9781943910830
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Devil in a Domino (Valancourt Classics) written by Chas L'Epine and published by Valancourt Books. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The offspring of a profligate scoundrel and a drunken circus performer, Aleck Severn was born inside a prison's walls after his mother stabbed his father to death. Severn shows no outward signs of inheriting his parents' faults: a handsome, affable man about town, he is popular with his friends and beloved by his wife Marianne. But she begins to suspect her husband has a dark secret. What is he doing during those long nights alone at a remote house? And what connection could it have to the bodies of murdered women being found around London? One of the earliest novels inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders, The Devil in a Domino (1897) received mixed reviews when originally published, with critics praising the author's literary talent while decrying the book's horrific contents. A work of exceeding rarity, it survives in only a handful of known copies and has not been reprinted in over a century. This new edition features an introduction by Simon Stern. "[A] frankly horrible performance ... a gruesome compound of madness and butchery, with nameless horrors in the background. No sane person could find pleasure in reading such a story ... it would have been better had it not been written." - The Literary World "[A] peculiarly repulsive piece of writing, indicative of the low and morbid type of so-called literature which is purveyed to a half-educated constituency." - Edinburgh Evening News "In its diabolical horrors it recalls the ghastly series of crimes supposed to have been the work of 'Jack the Ripper.' Those who like to sup on sensation will find all they want in The Devil in a Domino." - Dundee Evening Telegraph

The Devil in a Domino

Author : Charles L'Epine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Devil in a Domino written by Charles L'Epine and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Devil in a Domino ... Popular Edition

Author : Charles L'EPINE (pseud.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book The Devil in a Domino ... Popular Edition written by Charles L'EPINE (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Devil in a Domino (Valancourt Classics)

Author : Chas L'Epine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943910823
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Devil in a Domino (Valancourt Classics) written by Chas L'Epine and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The offspring of a profligate scoundrel and a drunken circus performer, Aleck Severn was born inside a prison's walls after his mother stabbed his father to death. Severn shows no outward signs of inheriting his parents' faults: a handsome, affable man about town, he is popular with his friends and beloved by his wife Marianne. But she begins to suspect her husband has a dark secret. What is he doing during those long nights alone at a remote house? And what connection could it have to the bodies of murdered women being found around London? One of the earliest novels inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders, The Devil in a Domino (1897) received mixed reviews when originally published, with critics praising the author's literary talent while decrying the book's horrific contents. A work of exceeding rarity, it survives in only a handful of known copies and has not been reprinted in over a century. This new edition features an introduction by Simon Stern. "[A] frankly horrible performance ... a gruesome compound of madness and butchery, with nameless horrors in the background. No sane person could find pleasure in reading such a story ... it would have been better had it not been written." - The Literary World "[A] peculiarly repulsive piece of writing, indicative of the low and morbid type of so-called literature which is purveyed to a half-educated constituency." - Edinburgh Evening News "In its diabolical horrors it recalls the ghastly series of crimes supposed to have been the work of 'Jack the Ripper.' Those who like to sup on sensation will find all they want in The Devil in a Domino." - Dundee Evening Telegraph

The Female Thermometer

Author : Terry Castle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019508098X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Female Thermometer written by Terry Castle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.

A Short History of English Literature

Author : Harry Blamires
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134942109
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of English Literature written by Harry Blamires and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2012. This work of introduction is designed to escort the reader through some six centuries of English literature. It begins in the fourteenth century at the point at which the language written in our country is recognizably our own, and ends in the 1950s. It is a compact survey, summing up the substance and quality of the individual achievements that make up our literature. The aim is to leave the reader informed about each writer’s main output, sensitive to the special character of his gifts, and aware of his place in the story of our literature as a whole.

Ratman's Notebooks

Author : Stephen Gilbert
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Ratman's Notebooks written by Stephen Gilbert and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1969 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Three

Author : Ellen Wood
Publisher : Valancourt Books
ISBN 13 : 9781948405218
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Three by : Ellen Wood

Download or read book The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Three written by Ellen Wood and published by Valancourt Books. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new anthology of twenty ghostly tales of Yuletide terror, collected from rare Victorian periodicals Seeking to capitalize on the success of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843), Victorian newspapers and magazines frequently featured ghost stories at Christmas time, and reading them by candlelight or the fireside became an annual tradition, a tradition Valancourt Books is pleased to continue with our series of Victorian Christmas ghost stories. This third volume contains twenty tales, most of them never before reprinted. They represent a mix of the diverse styles and themes common to Victorian ghost fiction and include works by once-popular authors like Ellen Wood and Charlotte Riddell as well as contributions from anonymous or wholly forgotten writers. This volume also features a new introduction by Prof. Simon Stern. "Before me, with the sickly light from the lantern shining right down upon it, was--a cloven hoof! Then the awfulness of the compact I had made came to my mind with terrible force ..." - Frederick Manley, "The Ghost of the Cross-Roads" "By the fireplace there was a large hideous pool of blood soaking into the carpet, and leaving ghastly stains around. I am not ashamed to confess that my brain reeled; the mysterious horror overcame me ..." - Lillie Harris, "19, Great Hanover Street" "A fearful white face comes to me; a horrible mask, with features drawn as in agony--ghastly, pale, hideous! Death or approaching death, violent death, written in every line. Every feature distorted. Eyes starting from the head. Thin lips moving and working--lips that are cursing, although I hear no sound." - Hugh Conway, "A Dead Man's Face"

Gentleman Overboard

Author : Herbert Clyde Lewis
Publisher : Boiler House Press
ISBN 13 : 1913861244
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Gentleman Overboard written by Herbert Clyde Lewis and published by Boiler House Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of print for over seventy years, Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis is being rescued for today's readers to launch Boiler House Press's new series, Recovered Books. Halfway between Honolulu and Panama, a man slips and falls from a ship. For crucial hours, as he patiently treads water in hope of rescue, no one on board notices his absence. By the time the ship's captain is notified, it may be too late to save him... Rediscovered in 2009 by Brad Bigelow as part of tireless research for his popular Neglected Books website, Gentleman Overboard has since achieved the status of a cult classic and even become something of an international phenomenon, having seen translations into Spanish, Hebrew, and Dutch. The newspaper Ha'aretz has called it 'A miniature masterpiece that emerged from oblivion'; the Spanish magazine El Cultural dubbed it 'una perlita': 'a little pearl'. A masterful piece of narrative tension, and way ahead of its time, Gentleman Overboard sets the question of existence in its most basic terms. The story speaks fiercely to the contemporary moment and for all who share a sense of loneliness through having found themselves isolated by politics, disease, economics -or indeed just sheer accident and bad luck. The fate of the novel's hero even has ironic parallels with that of the author, Herbert Clyde Lewis, who died forgotten and alone in 1950, a victim of Hollywood's black list, and who has since slipped beneath the waves of fashion and time, but now hopefully is to be recovered from the murky depths for the readership he posthumously deserves.

Impassioned Jurisprudence

Author : Nancy E. Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611486769
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Impassioned Jurisprudence written by Nancy E. Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law’s claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish its rights with an assurance of fairness and equity. Yet, an investigation of the rational discourse of the law reveals at its core the processes of emotion, and a study of literature that engages with the law exposes the potency of emotion in the practice and understanding of the law. Examining both legal and literary texts, the authors in this collection consider the emotion that infuses the law and find that feeling, sentiment and passion are integral to juridical thought as well as to specific legislation.

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities

Author : Simon Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190695625
Total Pages : 921 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities written by Simon Stern and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does materiality matter to legal scholarship? What can affect studies offer to legal scholars? What are the connections among visual studies, art history, and the knowledge and experience of law? What can the disciplines of book history, digital humanities, performance studies, disability studies, and post-colonial studies contribute to contemporary and historical understandings of law? These are only some of the important questions addressed in this wide-ranging collection of law and humanities scholarship. Collecting 45 new essays by leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities showcases the work of law and humanities across disciplines, addressing methods, concepts and themes, genres, and areas of the law. The essays explore under-researched domains such as comics, videos, police files, form contracts, and paratexts, and shed new light on traditional topics, such as free speech, intellectual property, international law, indigenous peoples, immigration, evidence, and human rights. The Handbook provides an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of law and humanistic inquiry.

Max's Sandwich Book

Author : Max Halley
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1911600842
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Max's Sandwich Book written by Max Halley and published by Bonnier Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS SEEN ON SUNDAY BRUNCH "GENIUS ... CHANGED THE WAY I'M GOING TO EAT FROM NOW ON ... THESE SANDWICHES ARE EPIC!" THE HAIRY BIKERS Max's Sandwich Book is the ultimate guide to creating perfection between two slices of bread. Max Halley owns Britain's most amazing sandwich shop. After working in some of the country's best restaurants, he realised that the sandwich, humanity's greatest invention, was due a renaissance. So Max decided to open his own place and reinvent the sandwich forever. Inside this book you will find: · Award-winning creations from his shop · Inspired variations on classic sandwiches · Brilliant, delicious ways to use your leftovers · Sandwiches for breakfast · Sandwiches for dinner · Sandwiches for dessert · And more than 100 recipes for making your own ingenious creations at home. Ham, Egg & Chips never tasted so good. Max is the owner of Max's Sandwich Shop in Crouch End, winner of the Observer Food Monthly Award for Best Cheap Eat in 2015. "Amazing" Russell Norman, author of Polpo "Max is a sensation!" Meera Sodha "The Ham, Egg & Chips is the best sandwich I've ever eaten in my life" Simon Rimmer, Sunday Brunch "Very, very good" Evening Standard

A History of Literary Criticism

Author : Harry Blamires
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349214957
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book A History of Literary Criticism written by Harry Blamires and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1991-08-16 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces the course of literary criticism from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorising of the present day. He explores the texts which have been milestones in the history of critical thought, placing them firmly in the context of their time.

Narrow Rooms

Author : James Purdy
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786716692
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Narrow Rooms written by James Purdy and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of surreal fiction, originally published in 1978, is a passionate and violent love story about adolescent obsession and revenge. By the author of The House of the Solitary Maggot. Original.

A Life Marketed as Fiction

Author : Karen Morton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934555224
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book A Life Marketed as Fiction written by Karen Morton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Life Marketed as Fiction, Karen Morton argues for a reevaluation of the prolific late eighteenth century author Eliza Parsons, who at age fifty was forced to begin writing novels to provide for her family after her husband's death. In her career, she published nineteen novels, spanning more than sixty volumes, but is chiefly remembered today as the author of two of the "horrid novels" mentioned in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. In this book, the first full-length study of Parsons' works, Morton uncovers never before revealed biographical information about this elusive author and corrects the errors of previous scholars before turning to an in-depth analysis of Parsons' works. Included are chapters on her Gothic novels and her novels of contemporary manners, but Morton delves deeper and also looks for insight into the little-known Parsons by examining her prefaces, dedications, and the letters in which she solicited money. What emerges is a portrait of a fascinating, talented, and important neglected woman writer - an author who merits recognition as more than just a minor Gothic novelist. Chapters in the book include: Introduction, Biography, Dedications, Prefaces, Requests for Money, Novels of Contemporary Manners, Gothic Novels, and Biographical Novels. Also included is an appendix containing the subscription list of the 437 subscribers to Parsons' first novel, The History of Miss Meredith (1790), the full text of all extant reviews of her works published between 1790 and 1807, and a bibliography.

When Darkness Loves Us

Author : Elizabeth Engstrom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982159668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book When Darkness Loves Us written by Elizabeth Engstrom and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Ann is a bright and bubbling farm girl, still caught in the thrill of a brand-new husband and a shining future ahead. When a careless exploration leaves her trapped underground, she learns to live again in the absence of everything she once knew. Even driven by love and light, Sally Ann finds the deepest darkness within herself in When Darkness Loves Us. Old Martha Mannes has been a part of Morgan, Illinois since her birth. The whole town knows her as the dim-witted woman who was born without a nose, but Martha's mind wasn't always a blank slate. Unlocking the monster buried deep in her memories may bring back the sparkling child she once was...or it may send those around her crashing down into the nightmares of a little girl gone wrong. A reprinting of Elizabeth Engstrom's first book, this two-novella collection twists together the beauty and horror underlying the seeming simplicity of small town life.

The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One

Author : John Blackburn
Publisher : Valancourt Books
ISBN 13 : 1943910529
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One written by John Blackburn and published by Valancourt Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, you will encounter tales of ghosts, haunted houses, witchcraft, vampirism, lycanthropy, and sea monsters. Stories of cruelty and vengeance, of a body that refuses to be cremated, a deranged performer with one last shocking show, a frozen corpse that may not be dead. With stories ranging from frightening to horrific to weird to darkly funny, by a lineup of authors that includes both masters of horror fiction and award-winning literary greats, this is a horror anthology like no other. Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted, by: Charles Birkin • John Blackburn • Michael Blumlein • Mary Cholmondeley • Hugh Fleetwood • Stephen Gregory • Gerald Kersh • Francis King • M. G. Lewis • Florence Marryat • Richard Marsh • Michael McDowell • Christopher Priest • Forrest Reid • Bernard Taylor • Hugh Walpole 'The things were there and they were hiding in the slime; waiting ... waiting to clutch and claw and savage’ - AUNTY GREEN by John Blackburn ‘The sound that came from her throat, a small, pleading cry of terror, was cut off before she’d hardly had a chance to utter it’ - OUT OF SORTS by Bernard Taylor ‘The words filled her with an indescribable fear, and she turned to run; but her way was blocked by a figure, gigantic in stature – and its monstrous shape moved towards her, and she knew it was the incarnation of evil itself ’ - THE TERROR ON TOBIT by Charles Birkin