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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 Peckett Prest
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance written by Thomas Peckett Prest and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The String of Pearls is a mysterious novel by Thomas Preskett Prest telling about the adventures of a young lady Johanna Oakley searching for her missing lover Mark, and a demonic barber who keeps a mysterious barber shop of Sweeney Todd, where women are not allowed to enter.
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 : 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 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The String of Pearls, Or, The Barber of Fleet Street written by James Malcolm Rymer and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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 : 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 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.
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 : Anonymous
Publisher : Bibliolis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781907727993
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Sweeney Todd written by Anonymous and published by Bibliolis Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No author has ever stepped forward to claim Sweeney Todd as his or hers. Pity, since the story of the Barber of Fleet Street has continued to live on from the written word to Broadway and on to the silver screen. Sweeney originally appeared in a story The String of Pearls: A Romance carrying the subtitle, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance. In this novel, Sweeney Todd is at his finest, dispatching victims with aplomb, leaving their fate and disposition to Mrs. Lovett and her pies. Though claims have been made that Sweeney was based on a real life person, this is something of an early urban legend. Since the work's author remains unknown, no one will ever truly know the origins of Sweeney Todd and his twisted sense of justice.
Author : Thomas Preskett Prest
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141192348
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The String of Pearls written by Thomas Preskett Prest and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware the blood-soaked razor of Sweeney Todd, demon barber of Fleet Street! Johanna Oakley�s lover, Mark, has gone missing in suspicious circumstances. And the man who was meant to deliver Mark�s last gift to her, a string of pearls, has gone missing too � last seen entering the barber-shop of Sweeney Todd. In desperation, Johanna decides to dress up as a boy in order to gain access to Todd�s premises. There, in a fetid underground crypt, she will discover the grisly truth about what has really happened to Sweeney Todd�s unsuspecting customers � and what they have to do with Mrs Lovett, famed maker of the most delicious pies in London �
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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 Peckett Prest
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513276972
Total Pages : 983 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Sweeney Todd written by Thomas Peckett Prest and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street (1846-1847) is a penny dreadful novel by British writers James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest. Originally serialized in cheap volumes, the novel marks the debut of Sweeney Todd, a villain whose story inspired Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), which won a Tony Award for Best Musical and an Olivier Award for Best New Musical before serving as source material for Tim Burton’s 2007 film of the same name. In London in 1785, a young sailor named Lieutenant Thornhill goes missing while on leave. Last seen on Fleet Street while entering the barber shop of Sweeney Todd, his mysterious disappearance inspires Colonel Jeffrey, a friend, to investigate. Discovering that Thornhill was carrying with him a pearl necklace for Johanna Oakley, the lover of a man lost at sea, Jeffrey questions the young girl. Disturbed by his story, and moved by Thornhill’s honorable intentions, Johanna offers her help in his search. Suspicious of Todd, who has recently lost an assistant to a local insane asylum, she dresses as a young boy and goes to his barber shop to apply for the position. There, she begins to uncover Todd’s secret operation, whereby murdering his unsuspecting patrons, he transports their bodies to Mrs. Lovett’s shop to be turned into cheap meat pies. Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street is a grisly penny dreadful novel, a quick-witted work of horror that has inspired several successful adaptations. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest is a classic of British horror fiction reimagined for modern readers.
Author : Anonynous Anonymous
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1908694866
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Sweeney Todd written by Anonynous Anonymous and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "penny blood” came into being through a process which began with higher standards of general education and literacy in England at the beginning of the 19th century, and continued with the invention of fast and efficient printing presses and cheap paper production. These combined elements simultaneously created a new, mass market for literature, and fed that market with new, affordable product. The gothic novel, popular amongst a rarefied class of literary readers, duly gave way to sensationalistic, graphic shockers for the masses. The PENNY BLOOD CLASSICS ebook series, which focuses on the "golden age” of the penny bloods, starts with the legendary tale of Sweeney Todd, cut-throat barber of London's Fleet Street. Perhaps inspired by "Horrible Murder And Human Pie-Makers", a gruesome true crime story published in 1825 in The Tell-Tale and included here as a fascinating bonus story. Todd first appeared in Edward Lloyd's celebrated serial "The String Of Pearls" (1846-47), most likely written by James Malcolm Rymer, either alone or alternating with Thomas Peckett Prest. The blood-curdling version included here is from a lesser-known periodical, probably published around 1850, by which time Todd had acquired, via a theatrical melodrama by George Dibden Pitt, his famous catch-phrase "I'll polish him off”. The book also includes an extensive introduction on the history of the penny blood.
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 : Jen Cadwallader
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319588869
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century written by Jen Cadwallader and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection offers undergraduate Literature instructors a guide to the pedagogy and teaching of Victorian literature in liberal arts classrooms. With numerous essays focused on thematic course design, this volume reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the literature classroom. A section on genre provides suggestions on approaching individual works and discussing their influence on production of texts. Sections on digital humanities and “out of the classroom” approaches to Victorian literature reflect current practices and developing trends. The concluding section offers three different versions of an “ideal” course, each of which shows how thematic, disciplinary, genre, and technological strands may be woven together in meaningful ways. Professors of introductory literature courses aimed at non-English majors to advanced seminars for majors will find accessible and innovative course ideas supplemented with a variety of versatile teaching materials, including syllabi, assignments, and in-class activities.
