The Life And Fantastical Crimes Of Spring Heeled Jack
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Author : Tony Wolf
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2020-02-20
The Life And Fantastical Crimes Of Spring Heeled Jack written by Tony Wolf and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with categories.
The year is 1865. Falsely imprisoned for high treason, Captain John Ashton awaits execution by hanging - but instead finds himself on the run from the law and desperate to redeem his good name. Ashton assumes the guise of Spring Heeled Jack, an agile, phantomesque figure of folklore, and begins a campaign of harassment and intimidation against those who framed him. Quickly, however, he finds himself drawn into the intrigues of London's shadow-world, including a deadly game of cat and mouse against a rooftop-dwelling serial killer ...In the great tradition of penny dreadful adventure tales, this action-packed novel re-imagines the urban legend of Spring Heeled Jack as a superhero origin story, told as the memoir and confession of Spring Heeled Jack himself.
Spring Heeled Jack
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Author : Charlton Lea
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-19
Spring Heeled Jack written by Charlton Lea and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-19 with categories.
Victorian England's greatest urban legend was Spring-Heeled Jack. His hair-raising adventures as a superhero were recorded in a rare 1904 penny dreadful, offered in facsimile format for the first time, including original ads and illustrations.
The Legend Of Spring Heeled Jack
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Author : Karl Bell
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 2012
The Legend Of Spring Heeled Jack written by Karl Bell and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England. WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a nursery lore bogeyman to frighten children. A mercurial and unfixed cultural phenomenon, Spring-Heeled Jack found purchase in both older folkloric traditions and emerging forms of entertainment. Through this intriguing study of a unique and unsettling figure, Karl Bell complicates our appreciation of the differences, interactions and similarities between various types of popular culture between 1837 and 1904. The book draws upon a rich variety of primary source material including folklorist accounts, street ballads, several series of "penny dreadful" stories (and illustrations), journals, magazines, newspapers, comics, court accounts, autobiographies and published reminiscences. The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack is impressively researched social history and provides a fascinating insight into Victorian cultures. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century English social and cultural history, folklore or literature. Karl Bell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth.
Boys Will Be Boys
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Author : E. S. Turner
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-02-14
Boys Will Be Boys written by E. S. Turner and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with History categories.
E.S. Turner's first book, published in 1948, is a wholly original, richly researched and uncommonly insightful study of a somewhat disreputable genre: the 'Boys' Weekly' papers commonly known as 'penny dreadfuls.' 'A classic of its kind... [Turner] ploughed through back numbers of the old blood-and-thunder adventure magazines specialising in cliffhanger serials; the young hero would be left hanging over a cliff in a totally impossible situation, which would be easily resolved in the next issue: 'With one bound Jack was free.' Social history had never been as much fun or, with three extra printings in its first week - such was the demand - as profitable.' Jonathan Sale, Guardian 'Some people felt that E.S. Turner may have invented a new kind of book - the popular social history, very British, very funny, but written with a glistening elegance.' Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books
The Legend And Bizarre Crimes Of Spring Heeled Jack
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Author : Peter Haining
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Legend And Bizarre Crimes Of Spring Heeled Jack written by Peter Haining and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Crime categories.
Houdini S Girl Detective
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Author : Rose Mackenberg
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-08-17
Houdini S Girl Detective written by Rose Mackenberg and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-17 with categories.
The 1920s: a time of unprecedented belief in "spiritualism", or the practice of ostensibly communicating with the spirits of the dead. Into this milieau stepped Rose Mackenberg, a private detective trained by the great magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini. Her mission: to investigate and expose "ghost racketeers" who used magic tricks and psychological manipulation to con bereaved people out of their hard-earned cash. "Houdini's Girl Detective" is an illustrated anthology of Rose Mackenberg's original 1929 newspaper article series, detailing her sometimes hair-raising adventures exposing the chicanery of the ghost racket.
The Ghost And The Lady
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Author : Kazuhiro Fujita
language : en
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
Release Date : 2016
The Ghost And The Lady written by Kazuhiro Fujita and has been published by Kodansha Comics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Albion S Seed
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Author : David Hackett Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1991-03-14
Albion S Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-03-14 with History categories.
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Sophie S World
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Author : Jostein Gaarder
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-07-15
Sophie S World written by Jostein Gaarder and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-15 with Fiction categories.
The international bestseller about life, the universe and everything. 'A simply wonderful, irresistible book' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A terrifically entertaining and imaginative story wrapped round its tough, thought-provoking philosophical heart' DAILY MAIL 'Remarkable ... an extraordinary achievement' SUNDAY TIMES When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself? To solve the riddle, she uses her new knowledge of philosophy, but the truth is far stranger than she could have imagined. A phenomenal worldwide bestseller, SOPHIE'S WORLD sets out to draw teenagers into the world of Socrates, Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel and all the great philosophers. A brilliantly original and fascinating story with many twists and turns, it raises profound questions about the meaning of life and the origin of the universe.
The Unstoppable Letty Pegg
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Author : Iszi Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
Release Date : 2020-02-06
The Unstoppable Letty Pegg written by Iszi Lawrence and has been published by Bloomsbury Children's Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with categories.
Brilliant debut historical adventure from writer and comedian Iszi Lawrence, perfect for fans of Emma Carroll, The Princess and the Suffragette, and Opal Plumstead. The story of the suffragettes with the Jiu Jitsu and roller skating left in... this impeccably researched debut novel from Iszi Lawrence shows the fight for women's suffrage as it really was. Lettice Pegg's father is a working-class policeman and her mother is a middle-class suffragette. Stuck between them (and her terrifying grandma) as they argue, Lettice mostly cares about trying to fit in at school and convincing her parents to let her have roller skates and go to the music hall. But, when Lettice sees her mother brutally thrown to the ground by a policeman while on a protest march, her life changes forever. Not all of the women on the march are vulnerable to attack. Some of them have a secret weapon- Jiu Jitsu. As the suffragettes welcome Lettice to the fight back, things at home go from bad to worse. Can Lettice bring her family back together and keep her new friends?