Miss Stone Affair
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The Miss Stone Affair
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Author : Teresa Carpenter
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-12-13
The Miss Stone Affair written by Teresa Carpenter and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-13 with History categories.
In The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates the drama of the country’s first modern hostage crisis—an event that captured the attention of the world, dominated American and European headlines, and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback for a trek across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia. In a narrow gorge, she was attacked by a band of masked men who carried her off the road and, more significantly, onto the path of history. Stone would become the first American captured for ransom on foreign soil. Using a wealth of contemporary correspondence and diplomatic cables, Teresa Carpenter tells the story of Miss Stone through narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. On a journey that takes the reader from Boston's Beacon Hill to Constantinople and the bloody revolution-wracked nation-states of the Balkans, Carpenter introduces an unforgettable cast of characters: the strong-willed Miss Stone and her Bulgarian companion, Katerina Tsilka, who is brought along by the kidnappers—in deference to Victorian convention—as a chaperone; the terrorists who threaten to murder their hostages and yet are awed when Tsilka gives birth to a baby girl; the diplomat who sees the Stone case as a vehicle for his personal ambition; rival negotiators whom the terrorists pit one against the other; a media mogul obsessed with finding the hostages and securing their literary rights; and, of course, the new president, Theodore Roosevelt, who must decide if he should, as many of his countrymen are demanding, send warships to the Near East or if some quieter form of intervention might win the day. Teresa Carpenter has produced a turn-of-the-century international thriller with precision, drama, and historical perspective. This is a story for our time.
Miss Stone Affair
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Author : Teresa Carpenter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-07-01
Miss Stone Affair written by Teresa Carpenter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-01 with categories.
On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries. In "The Miss Stone Affair," Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. Should he send in the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. It is a story for our time.
The Inscrutable Miss Stone
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Author : Alice ASKEW (and ASKEW (Claude))
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
The Inscrutable Miss Stone written by Alice ASKEW (and ASKEW (Claude)) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with categories.
An Affair With Mr Kennedy
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Author : Jillian Stone
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-01-31
An Affair With Mr Kennedy written by Jillian Stone and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with Fiction categories.
For years, the memory of a deadly bombing at King's Cross has haunted brilliant Scotland Yard detective Zeno "Zak" Kennedy. In London, 1887, his investigation zeroes in on a ring of aristocratic rebels campaigning for Irish revolution, and pulls him into the arms of free-spirited Cassandra St. Cloud, an impressionist painter with very modern ideas about life and love.
Boss Busters Sin Hounds
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Author : Harry Haskell
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2007
Boss Busters Sin Hounds written by Harry Haskell and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
"Haskell tells the tale of the Kansas City Star's rise and decline, taking readers into the city room and executive offices of one of the most respected American newspapers. This story includes Kansas City notables as Tom Pendergast, J. C. Nichols, Frank Walsh, William Rockhill Nelson, Henry J. Haskell and Roy A. Roberts"--Provided by publisher.
Transatlantic Sensations
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Author : John Cyril Barton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-24
Transatlantic Sensations written by John Cyril Barton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a convincing case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. Transatlantic Sensations begins with the 'prehistories' of the genre, looking at the dialogue and debate generated by the publication of sentimental and gothic fiction by William Godwin, Susanna Rowson, and Charles Brockden Brown.Thus establishing a context for the treatment of works by Louisa May Alcott, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Dion Boucicault, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Lippard, Charles Reade, Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Thompson, the volumetakes up a wide range of sensational topics including sexuality, slavery, criminal punishment, literary piracy, mesmerism, and the metaphors of foreign literary invasion and diseased reading. Concluding essays offer a reassessment of the realist and domestic fiction of George Eliot, Charlotte Yonge, and Thomas Hardy in the context of transatlantic sensationalism, emphasizing the evolution of the genre throughout the century and mapping a new transatlantic lineage for this immensely popular literary form. The book's final essay examines an international kidnapping case that was a journalistic sensation at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Cinematographic Activities Of Charles Rider Noble And John Mackenzie In The Balkans Volume Two
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Author : Peter Ivanov Kardjilov
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-08-27
The Cinematographic Activities Of Charles Rider Noble And John Mackenzie In The Balkans Volume Two written by Peter Ivanov Kardjilov and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-27 with Art categories.
Following on from the first volume, this book details the engrossing story of the two camera operators sent out to the Balkans by the American film producer Charles Urban, who had established his company in London in the early 20th century. The first of them, the Englishman Charles Rider Noble, filmed as many as 38 short living pictures in Bulgaria in 1903 and 1904. The second, the Scot John Mackenzie, travelled with his bioscope through Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania in 1905. Thus, thanks to the two Britons, the first sequences of films depicting the landscapes, historical and archaeological monuments, architectural landmarks, cultural traditions and ethnographic features of the region, as well as some of its public events of the time, were shown in the peninsula. This book provides an exciting trip ‘through savage Europe’, tracing the amazing adventures of its ‘main characters’ and their life paths to their very end. Therefore, it makes absorbing reading, while preserving its status as a unique scientific work, intended for film historians, early cinema researchers, film and television archives experts, college and university lecturers, students and schoolchildren. It will be of interest to everyone who, regardless of their age, loves the ‘Seventh Art’ and adores the secrets its early history still holds.
Macedonia
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Author : Thammy Evans
language : en
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Release Date : 2009
Macedonia written by Thammy Evans and has been published by Bradt Travel Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Travel categories.
The third edition of the only English-language guide to Macedonia, one of Europe's least-discovered gems.
Romancing Miss Stone
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Author : M. C. Vaughan
language : en
Publisher: Afterglow Books by Harlequin
Release Date : 2024-06-06
Romancing Miss Stone written by M. C. Vaughan and has been published by Afterglow Books by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-06 with Fiction categories.
Will one hot journey lead to love?
The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone New Directions Bibelot
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Author : Tennessee Williams
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2013-10-25
The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone New Directions Bibelot written by Tennessee Williams and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-25 with Drama categories.
Tennessee Williams's first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting, too, to aging. ("The knowledge that her beauty was lost had come upon her recently and it was still occasionally forgotten.") With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo: "As compelling, as fascinating, and as technically skillful as his play" (Publishers Weekly).