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The Devil's Spectacles (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473366992
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Spectacles (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by Wilkie Collins and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-03 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1879. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand. In 1846, Collins became a law student at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1851, although he never practiced. It was in 1848, a year after the death of his father, that he published his first book, The Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A., to good reviews. The 1860s saw Collins' creative high-point, and it was during this decade that he achieved fame and critical acclaim, with his four major novels, The Woman in White (1860), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The Moonstone, meanwhile is seen by many as the first true detective novel - T. S. Eliot called it "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels...in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe." Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.

The Devil

Author : Darren Oldridge
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752476424
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Devil written by Darren Oldridge and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil was a commanding figure in Tudor and Stuart England. He played a leading role in the religious and political conflicts of the age, and inspired great works of poetry and drama. During the turmoil of the English Civil War, fears of a secret conspiracy of Devil-worshippers fuelled a witch-hunt that claimed at least a hundred lives. This book traces the idea of the Devel from the English Reformation to the scientific revolution of the late seventeenth century. It shows that he was not only a central figure in the imaginative life of the age, but also a deeply ambiguous and complex one: the avowed enemy of God and his unwilling accomplice, and a creature that provoked fascination, comdey and dread.

Spectacles of Strangeness

Author : Emily C. Bartels
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512801003
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Spectacles of Strangeness written by Emily C. Bartels and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Bartels focuses on Marlowe's preoccupation with "strangers" and "strange" lands, and his use—and subversion—of Elizabethan stereotypes. Setting Marlovian drama in the context of England's nascent imperialism, Bartels probes the significance of the alien as the vital presence on the Renaissance stage and within Renaissance society.

The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”

Author : Shokhan Rasool Ahmed
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496992814
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness” written by Shokhan Rasool Ahmed and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Staging of Witchcraft and a Spectacle of Strangeness: Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.

Through German Spectacles, an Account of the Huns as They are ; Pictured by Themselves in Their Own Press

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Through German Spectacles, an Account of the Huns as They are ; Pictured by Themselves in Their Own Press written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Short Stories of Wilkie Collins

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027235936
Total Pages : 3364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Wilkie Collins written by Wilkie Collins and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 3364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. Table of Contents: After The Dark The Ostler Mr. Wray's Cash Box The Queen of Hearts A House To Let The Haunted House ("The Ghost in the Cupboard Room") My Miscellanies No Thoroughfare Miss or Mrs? "Blow up with the Brig!" The Hidden Cash The Perils of Certain English Prisoners The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices The Last Stage Coachman The Fatal Cradle The Frozen Deep and Other Stories The Captain's Last Love The Dead Hand The Devil's Spectacles The First Officer's Confession Farmer Fairweather Fatal Fortune Fie! Fie! Or The Fair Physician Love's Random Shot The Midnight Mass Nine O'Clock A Passage in the Life of Mr. Perugino Potts The Haunted Hotel My Lady's Money Who Killed Zebedee Little Novels The Poetry Did It A Sad Death and A Brave Life The Twin Sisters Volpurno - Or The Student John Steadiman's Account (The Wreck of The Golden Mary) A Message from The Sea The Seafaring Man The Dead Alive

Gerardus Joannes Vossius

Author : Jan Bloemendal
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004183698
Total Pages : 2216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Gerardus Joannes Vossius written by Jan Bloemendal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 2216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new, critical edition (in two-volumes) of Gerardus Joannes Vossius' Latin Poeticae institutiones (1647), with a translation in English, an introduction, annotations and a commentary. In appendices the De artis poeticae natura ac constitutione and De imitatione are published, with a translation.

The Man with the Wooden Spectacles

Author : Harry Stephen Keeler
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479429805
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book The Man with the Wooden Spectacles written by Harry Stephen Keeler and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trial of the man apprehended with a crimson hatbox containing a skull continues with the shenanigans of the Moffit brothers, Silas and Saul, trying to thwart the efforts of Elsa Colby, the young defense lawyer who must win her first case -- or it will be her last! Elsa finds herself visiting the darkest parts of Chicago in her quest to prove that when her client told the archbishop that the box contained "Wah Lee’s skull," he didn’t know the box actually had a skull inside. This classic mystery tale by webwork master Harry Stephen Keeler is every bit as confusing as it sounds -- until Keeler pulls it all together!

The Devil Is An Ass

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719030901
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Devil Is An Ass written by Ben Jonson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition contains an introduction which looks at the special place of the play in Jonson's own life, his interest in London, the theatrical setting of the play and its sources and analogues. It also includes critical and explanatory commentaries and a glossarial index.

The Devil's Derivatives

Author : Nicholas Dunbar
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422177815
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Derivatives written by Nicholas Dunbar and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dunbar charts the untold story of how investment banks invented new financial products, how investors across the world were wooed into buying them, and how speculators made a killing from the near-meltdown of the financial system.

The Innocence of the Devil

Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520216525
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis The Innocence of the Devil by : Nawal El Saadawi

Download or read book The Innocence of the Devil written by Nawal El Saadawi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-11-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nawal El Saadawi's books are known for their powerful denunciation of patriarchy in its many forms: social, political, and religious. Set in an insane asylum, The Innocence of the Devil is a complex and chilling novel that recasts the relationships of God and Satan, of good and evil. Intertwining the lives of two young women as they discover their sexual and emotional powers, Saadawi weaves a dreamlike narrative that reveals how the patriarchal structures of Christianity and Islam are strikingly similar: physical violation of women is not simply a social or political phenomenon, it is a religious one as well. While more measured in tone than Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Saadawi's novel is similar in its linguistic, literary, and philosophical richness. Evoking a world of pain and survival that may be unfamiliar to many readers, it speaks in a universal voice that reaches across cultures and is the author's most potent weapon.

Gothic Writers

Author : Douglass H. Thomson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313006911
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Writers written by Douglass H. Thomson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its roots in Romanticism, antiquarianism, and the primacy of the imagination, the Gothic genre originated in the 18th century, flourished in the 19th, and continues to thrive today. This reference is designed to accommodate the critical and bibliographical needs of a broad spectrum of users, from scholars seeking critical assistance to general readers wanting an introduction to the Gothic, its abundant criticism, and the present state of Gothic Studies. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries on more than 50 Gothic writers from Horace Walpole to Stephen King. Entries for Russian, Japanese, French, and German writers give an international scope to the book, while the focus on English and American literature shows the dynamic nature of Gothicism today. Each of the entries is devoted to a particular author or group of authors whose works exhibit Gothic elements, beginning with a primary bibliography of works by the writer, including modern editions. This section is followed by a critical essay, which examines the author's use of Gothic themes, the author's place in the Gothic tradition, and the critical reception of the author's works. The entries close with selected, annotated bibliographies of scholarly studies. The volume concludes with a timeline and a bibliography of the most important broad scholarly works on the Gothic.

Media Spectacle and Insurrection, 2011

Author : Douglas Kellner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441185992
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Media Spectacle and Insurrection, 2011 written by Douglas Kellner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the inaugural book in our Critical Adventures in New Media series, Douglas Kellner elaborates upon his well known theory which explores how media spectacle can be used as a key to interpreting contemporary culture and politics. Grounded in both cultural and communication theory, Kellner argues that politics, war, news and information, media events (like terrorist attacks or royal weddings), and now democratic uprisings, are currently organized around media spectacles, and demonstrates how and why this has occurred. Rooting the discussions within key events of 2011 - including the war in Libya, the Arab Uprisings, the wedding of William Windsor to Kate Middleton, the killing of Osama bin Laden, and the Occupy movements - The Time of the Spectacle makes a highly relevant contribution to the field of media and communication studies. It offers a fresh perspective on the theme of contemporary media spectacle and politics by adopting an approach that is based around critical social and cultural theory. This series gives students a strong critical grounding from which to examine new media.

The Shoemaker And The Devil

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shoemaker And The Devil written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the whimsical and thought-provoking tale of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's "The Shoemaker and the Devil." This engaging short story revolves around a shoemaker who encounters a devil and must navigate a series of unusual and humorous challenges. Chekhov’s narrative delves into themes of temptation, morality, and the human condition through a fantastical and allegorical lens. Chekhov, celebrated for his blend of realism and satire, presents a story that combines humor with deeper philosophical reflections on human nature and the consequences of one’s choices. The narrative offers a reflective and entertaining examination of morality and temptation in a fantastical context."The Shoemaker and the Devil" is a captivating read for those interested in Chekhov’s exploration of allegory and moral themes. Perfect for readers who enjoy stories that blend humor with deeper philosophical insights and allegorical elements.

The Oxford Handbook Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World

Author : Alison Futrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192509586
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World written by Alison Futrell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport and spectacle in the ancient world has become a vital area of broad new exploration over the last few decades. This Handbook brings together the latest research on Greek and Roman manifestations of these pastimes to explore current approaches and open exciting new avenues of inquiry. It discusses historical perspectives, contest forms, contest-related texts, civic and social aspects, and use and meaning of the individual body. Greek and Roman topics are interwoven to simulate contest-like tensions and complementarities, juxtaposing, for example, violence in Greek athletics and Roman gladiatorial events, Greek and Roman chariot events, architectural frameworks for contests and games in the two cultures, and contrasting views of religion, bodily regimens, and judicial classification related to both cultures. It examines the social contexts of games, namely the evolution of sport and spectacle across cultural and political boundaries, and how games are adapted to multiple contexts and multiple purposes, reinforcing social hierarchies, performing shared values, and playing out deep cultural tensions. The volume also considers other directing forces in the ancient Mediterranean, such as Bronze Age Egypt and the Near East, Etruria, and early Christianity. It addresses important themes common to both antiquity and modern society, such as issues of class, gender, and health, as well as the popular culture of the modern Olympics and gladiators in cinema. With innovative perspectives from authoratative scholars on a wide range of topics, this Handbook will appeal to both students and researchers interested in ancient history, literature, sports, and games.

The Devil and the Vice in the English Dramatic Literature Before Shakespeare

Author : L. W. Cushman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429632487
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Devil and the Vice in the English Dramatic Literature Before Shakespeare written by L. W. Cushman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1900, this book was the first investigation of the devil and the Vice as dramatic figures, and a study of these figures led to a new view of the subject: it is, in brief, that the appearance of the devil in the non-dramatic as well as in the dramatic literature is limited to a definite range. As a dramatic figure the devil falls more and more into the background and the Vice is distinct in origin and function from the devil.

The Devil and the Vice in the English Dramatic Literature Before Shakespeare

Author : Lysander William Cushman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Devil and the Vice in the English Dramatic Literature Before Shakespeare written by Lysander William Cushman and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: