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Author : John Webster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The White Devil written by John Webster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Brumwell
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786736798
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book White Devil written by Stephen Brumwell and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fast-moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship, and savagery."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In North America's first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and England--both in alliance with Native American tribes--fought each other in a series of bloody battles and terrifying raids. No confrontation was more brutal and notorious than the massacre of the British garrison of Fort William Henry--an incident memorably depicted in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. That atrocity stoked calls for revenge, and the tough young Major Robert Rogers and his "Rangers" were ordered north into enemy territory to exact it. On the morning of October 4, 1759, Rogers and his men surprised the Abenaki Indian village of St. Francis, slaughtering its sleeping inhabitants without mercy. A nightmarish retreat followed. When, after terrible hardships, the raiders finally returned to safety, they were hailed as heroes by the colonists, and their leader was immortalized as "the brave Major Rogers." But the Abenakis remembered Rogers differently: To them he was Wobomagonda--"White Devil."
Author : Justin Evans
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062092022
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The White Devil written by Justin Evans and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Evans is so good at nail-biting narrative.” —WashingtonPost “[A]crackling literary mystery. . . . Harrow itself contains Shirley Jackson levelsof gloomy passages and dark secrets. Smart, scary, sexy, and gorgeously writtento boot.” —Booklist (starredreview) Joe Hill’s Horns meets Donna Tartt’sThe Secret History in this bold new thriller from Justin Evans, authorof the critically acclaimed A Good and Happy Child. Whenseventeen-year-old Andrew Taylor is transplanted from his American high schoolto a British boarding school—a high-profile academy for the sons of England’sfinest—his father hopes that the boy’s dark past will not follow him fromacross the Atlantic. But blood, suspense, and intrigue quickly surround Andrewonce again as he finds himself struggling with a deadly mystery left unsolvedby a student from Harrow School’s past—the enigmatic poet Lord Byron.
Author : Bob Halloran
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1940363896
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)
Download or read book White Devil written by Bob Halloran and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing true story of the only white man to rise to the top of the Chinese mafia. In August 2013, "Bac Guai" John Willis, also known as the "White Devil" because of his notorious ferocity, was sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking and money laundering. Willis, according to prosecutors, was "the kingpin, organizer and leader of a vast conspiracy," all within the legendarily insular and vicious Chinese mafia. It started when John Willis was 16 years old . . . his life seemed hopeless. His father had abandoned his family years earlier, his older brother had just died of a heart attack, and his mother was dying. John was alone, sleeping on the floor of his deceased brother's home. Desperate, John reached out to Woping, a young Chinese man Willis had rescued from a bar fight weeks before. Woping literally picks him up off the street, taking him home to live among his own brothers and sisters. Soon, Willis is accompanying Woping to meet his Chinese mobster friends, and starts working for them. Journalist Bob Halloran tells the tale of John Willis, aka White Devil, the only white man to ever rise through the ranks in the Chinese mafia. Willis began as an enforcer, riding around with other gang members to "encourage" people to pay their debts. He soon graduated to even more dangerous work as a full-fledged gang member, barely escaping with his life on several occasions. As a white man navigating an otherwise exclusively Asian world, Willis was at first an interesting anomaly, but his ruthless devotion to his adopted culture eventually led to him emerging as a leader. He organized his own gang of co-conspirators and began an extremely lucrative criminal venture selling tens of thousands of oxycodone pills. A year-long FBI investigation brought him down, and John pleaded guilty to save the love of his life from prosecution. He has no regrets. White Devil explores the workings of the Chinese mafia, and he speaks frankly about his relationships with other gang members, the crimes he committed, and why he'll never rat out any of his brothers to the cops. Told to Halloran from Willis's prison cell, White Devil is a shocking portrait of a man who was allowed access into a secret world, and who is paying the price for his hardened life.
Author : Matthew Beresford
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780232055
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The White Devil written by Matthew Beresford and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ovid’s Lycaon to Professor Lupin, from Teen Wolf to An American Werewolf in Paris, the lycanthrope, or werewolf, comes to us frequently on the page and the silver screen. These interpretations often display lycanthropy as a curse, with the afflicted person becoming an uncontrollable, feral beast during every full moon. But this is just one version of the werewolf—its origins can be traced back thousands of years to early prehistory, and everything from Iron Age bog bodies and Roman gods to people such as Joan of Arc, Adolf Hitler, and Sigmund Freud feature in its story. Exploring the role of this odd assortment of ideas and people in the myth, The White Devil tracks the development of the werewolf from its birth to the present day, seeking to understand why the wolf curse continues to hold a firm grip on the modern imagination. Combining early death and burial rites, mythology, folklore, archaeological evidence, and local superstitions, Matthew Beresford explains that the werewolf has long been present in the beliefs and mythology of the many cultures of Europe. He examines prehistoric wolf cults, the use of the wolf as a symbol of ancient Rome, medieval werewolf executions, and the eradication of wolves by authorities in England during the Anglo-Saxon period. He also surveys werewolf trials, medical explanations, and alleged sightings, as well as the instances in which lycanthropes appear in literature and film. With sixty illustrations of these often terrifying—but sometimes noble—beasts, The White Deviloffers a new understanding of the survival of the werewolf in European culture.
Author : Julia Flynn Siler
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101875267
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The White Devil's Daughters written by Julia Flynn Siler and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943), and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom. From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's Chinatown served as a gateway to freedom for thousands of enslaved and vulnerable young Chinese women and girls. Known as the Occidental Mission Home, it survived earthquakes, fire, bubonic plague, and violence directed against its occupants and supporters-- a courageous group of female abolitionists who fought the slave trade in Chinese women, challenging the corrosive, anti-Chinese prejudices of the time. Siler relates how the women who ran the house defied contemporary convention, even occasionally broke the law, by physically rescuing children from the brothels where they worked, or snatching them off the ships smuggling them in, and helped bring the exploiters to justice. She has also uncovered the stories of many of the girls and young women who came to the Mission and the lives they later led, sometimes becoming part of the home's staff themselves. A remarkable story of an overlooked part of our history, told with sympathy and vigor.--
Author : Paul Hoffman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718185595
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (181 download)
Download or read book The White Devil written by Paul Hoffman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GRIPPING NEW ADVENTURE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LEFT HAND OF GOD SERIES America is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it . . . ________ Thomas Cale - the world's most dangerous yet reluctant hero - has been running from his enemies. Tracked down moments before his execution, Cale is presented with a chance to escape. But it comes at a price: He must murder the American president. The father of modern democracy. The man fighting the south's attempts to reinstate slavery. Accept, and he risks the fates of millions. Refuse, and he endangers his own life . . . ________ Praise for Paul Hoffman: 'Fiction on a grand and ambitious scale' Daily Telegraph 'Brooding and magnificent' Eoin Colfer 'Exhilaratingly engaging writing' Spectator 'Gripped me from the first chapter' Conn Iggulden 'A riveting, powerful tale' Publishers Weekly
Author : John Webster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408145111
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The White Devil written by John Webster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Woman to man is either a god or a wolf" John Webster's first independent play, The White Devil, originally performed in 1612, centres on the beautiful Vittoria Corombona and her lover, Duke Brachiano, whose passionate, adulterous affair unleashes the powerful revenge of their enemies. While clearly guilty of lust and murder, these unsavoury characters become startlingly heroic under pressure, challenging both conventional moral judgments and oppressive social forces. This revised student edition contains a lengthy new Introduction with background on the author, date and sources, theme, critical interpretation and stage history. The Introduction discusses Webster's radical experimentation with tragic modes, his interest in the heroic potential of women, and evaluates the handling of both in recent stage productions.
Author : John Webster
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The White Devil written by John Webster and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The White Devil" by John Webster is a gripping tragedy that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and moral corruption in Renaissance Italy. Written during the Jacobean era, this play is known for its dark and intense portrayal of human nature and its unflinching examination of the consequences of unchecked ambition and desire. Set in the court of Duke Brachiano in Rome, the play follows the tumultuous lives of several characters, including Vittoria Corombona, the titular "White Devil," who becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and violence. As the plot unfolds, we witness the devastating effects of jealousy, manipulation, and deceit, as characters scheme and plot against one another in their quest for power and revenge. At the heart of the play is the character of Vittoria, a complex and enigmatic figure who defies societal expectations and challenges the traditional roles assigned to women. Her defiance and independence make her both a compelling protagonist and a tragic figure, as she becomes ensnared in a cycle of violence and betrayal from which there is no escape.
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Changeling written by Thomas Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1653 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Changeling is a popular Renaissance tragedy in which the relationship between money, sex, and power is explored. Frequently performed and studied in University courses, it is a key text in the New Mermaids series.
Author : Rebecca Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781505997453
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (974 download)
Download or read book The White Devil written by Rebecca Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's killing thousands and thousands of people each year. It's infecting people with diabetes, heart disease, and studies have shown that it's a precursor to cancer. It is the white devil...SUGAR!To stop this plague, the 30-Day Added Sugar Detox has been created. It is 30 days, as opposed to 21-Days or less, because it has been proven that it takes 30 days for a habit to form.The ultimate goal of this Sugar Detox Program is that by the end of the 30-days you will have the sheer willpower and desire to continue eating only natural sugars and other healthy foods you will find in this e-book.DISCOVER::- The Reality of What Sugar is Doing to Your Mind & Body- Why You Need To Start the 30-Day Added Sugar Detox Today- Foods That You Should Eat - Including Sugar Substitutes- A Meal Plan (Including Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, and Dessert) For Each of the 30 Days of Your Sugar Diet- Sweet Delicious Dessert Recipes- Awesome Workouts to Supplement Your 30-Day Sugar Detox- And Much, Much More!
Author : Dominic Stansberry
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781474610100
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The White Devil written by Dominic Stansberry and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the dark side of the dolce vita In the hot, shadowy streets of Rome, Vicki Wilson's lovers keep turning up dead. Vittoria, as she's known in Italy, is a small-time actress who left behind a dark past in her native Texas and followed her fading writer husband to the Eternal City. Guided by her controlling, obsessive brother Johnny, Vittoria soon enters the upper circles of Roman society, becoming a paparazzi darling and mingling with shady cardinals and corrupt senators. Among them is Paolo Orsini, who quickly falls prey to Vittoria's charms. Too bad he's married; too bad his wife, an aging film icon, is murdered. From the ravishing beauty of Rome - a city of dark secrets held within the frescoed walls of glamorous palazzos- to the pristine beaches of Malibu and the dangerous alleys of a mysterious South American city, Vittoria finds herself at the heart of a lethal chase, spiralling dangerously out of control... Winner of the Hammett Prize for Best Crime Fiction An irresistible page-turner loved by readers: 'Sultry, decadent, and erotically charged' Booklist 'My, my, my, what a dark and sordid tale of jealousy, desire, and cold-blooded murder this proved to be... I absolutely loved it' Goodreads review ***** 'A wild ride' Publisher's Weekly Starred Review 'Excellent read, it was tough to put this down... The writing and the tension in the story were phenomenal' Goodreads review ***** 'Freaking incredible' Crimespree Magazine 'I couldn't put it down... Just incredible' Goodreads review ***** 'Perhaps the most surprising feature of this tour de force is its pervasive links to both Jacobean tragedy and contemporary Mediterranean noir. Who knew?' Kirkus 'Modern noir as good as it gets' Goodreads review ***** 'More than a murder mystery: a story of Italy, obsessions, candid cultural observations, and a sense of place and confused purpose that keep readers guessing, entertained, and thoroughly immersed' Midwest Book Review
Author : A. Streete
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230358667
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Early Modern Drama and the Bible written by A. Streete and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible.
Author : Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250091209
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Perils of "Privilege" written by Phoebe Maltz Bovy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Privilege--the word, the idea, the j'accuse that cannot be answered with equanimity--is the new rhetorical power play. From social media to academia, public speech to casual conversation, "Check your privilege" or "Your privilege is showing" are utilized to brand people of all kinds with a term once reserved for wealthy, old-money denizens of exclusive communities. Today, "privileged" applies to anyone who enjoys an unearned advantage in life, about which they are likely oblivious. White privilege, male privilege, straight privilege--those conditions make everyday life easier, less stressful, more lucrative, and generally better for those who hold one, two, or all three designations. But what about white female privilege in the context of feminism? Or fixed gender privilege in the context of transgender? Or weight and height privilege in the context of hiring practices and salary levels? Or food privilege in the context of public health? Or two parent, working class privilege in the context of widening inequality for single parent families? In The Perils of Privilege, Phoebe Maltz Bovy examines the rise of this word into extraordinary potency. Does calling out privilege help to change or soften it? Or simply reinforce it by dividing people against themselves? And is privilege a concept that, in fact, only privileged people are debating?"--
Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409044602
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Devil In The White City written by Erik Larson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City'; one of the wonders of the world. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century . . .
Author : Domenic Stansberry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996765916
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (659 download)
Download or read book The White Devil written by Domenic Stansberry and published by . This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noir master Domenic Stansberry returns with this sultry, decadent murder mystery. THE WHITE DEVIL tells the story of an aspiring American actress, who, together with her too charming brother, is implicated in a series of crimes dating back to their childhood days in Texas. The novel begins in Rome, among the American ex-patriot community, and from there follows the siblings latest obsessions: an aging Italian actress and her charismatic husband. Stansberry s protagonist, Vicki Wilson, narrates the story in a voice alternately intimate and distant, a cipher of unwholesome impulse and erotic intrigue. The result is an elegant tour de force, a psychological noir exploring the murky depths where the differences between familial and erotic love, between criminal and victim, merge in deadly, unexpected ways"Stansberry nails the sultry, decadent, and erotically charged tone with one perfectly placed hammer stroke after another. --Booklist "Perhaps the most surprising feature of this tour de force is its pervasive links to both Jacobean tragedy and contemporary Mediterranean noir. Who knew? --KirkusEdgar-winner Stansberry takes the reader on a wild ride in this exceptional noir. .... compelling reading." Publisher's Weekly Starred Review
Author : Susan Casey
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466800518
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Devil's Teeth written by Susan Casey and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count; even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island-dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 135-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years. The Devil's Teeth is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.
