The Deadly Dowager Valancourt 20th Century Classics

Author : Edwin Greenwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943910380
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deadly Dowager (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) written by Edwin Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Dowager Arabella, Lady Engleton announces to her relatives her jolly scheme to restore the family's fortunes by insuring their lives in favor of her grandson and heir, the young Lord Henry, they laugh at her and think her mad. But they won't be laughing for long. Soon she begins to kill them off one by one with sinister mirth and gruesome inventiveness . . . Forgotten today, Edwin Greenwood (1895-1937) was the author of several clever and darkly humorous crime novels that were highly acclaimed by critics and admired by the master of the macabre, Arthur Machen. This edition features a new introduction by Mark Valentine, who argues that although Greenwood's "novels have been largely lost to view, it is high time they delighted a fresh readership," and a reproduction of the original dust jacket art. "Mixes mirth and murder with immense spirit and success ... I am sure that each of the Deadly Dowager's methods will find its warm admirers." - Arthur Machen "Delectable ... it's a positive delight to watch her kill." - "Saturday Review" "Quite the jolliest crime story that has come our way in many moons." - "New York Times"

Author : Michael McDowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941147917
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilded Needles (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) written by Michael McDowell and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by Avon Books in 1980.

Author : Elizabeth Jenkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941147719
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harriet (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) written by Elizabeth Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet Ogilvy is a young woman with a small fortune and a mental disability, making her the ideal target for the handsome and scheming Lewis Oman. After winning Harriet's love, Lewis, with the help of his brother and mistress, sets in motion a plan of unspeakable cruelty and evil to get his hands on her money. With consummate artistry, Elizabeth Jenkins transforms the bare facts of this case from the annals of Victorian England's Old Bailey into an absolutely spine-chilling exploration of the depths of human depravity. Based on the real-life 1877 case of Harriet Staunton, "Harriet" (1934) was a bestseller and a major critical success, beating Evelyn Waugh's "A Handful of Dust" to win the Prix Femina. This edition features a new afterword by Dr. Catherine Pope. "Like a cold hand clutching at the heart." - "Observer" "It is superb. Every word grips." - "Manchester Evening News" "So exciting that I could hardly read it." - James Agate, "Daily Express" "Everything she writes spells for me an enchantment that makes sober criticism next to impossible." Gerald Bullett, "Time and Tide"

Author : Terry Castle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019508098X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Thermometer written by Terry Castle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.

Author : Poul Anderson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504053664
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boat of a Million Years written by Poul Anderson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book and Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist: This epic chronicle of ten immortals over the course of history “succeeds admirably” (The New York Times). The immortals are ten individuals born in antiquity from various cultures. Immune to disease, able to heal themselves from injuries, they will never die of old age—although they can fall victim to catastrophic wounds. They have walked among mortals for millennia, traveling across the world, trying to understand their special gifts while searching for one another in the hope of finding some meaning in a life that may go on forever. Following their individual stories over the course of human history and beyond into a richly imagined future, “one of science fiction’s most revered writers” (USA Today) weaves a broad tapestry that is “ambitious in scope, meticulous in detail, polished in style” (Library Journal).

Author : Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century written by Henry Augustin Beers and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grant Allen
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Cayley's Adventures written by Grant Allen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Miss Cayley's Adventures" by Grant Allen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Ann B. Tracy
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813164796
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gothic Novel 1790–1830 written by Ann B. Tracy and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A research guide for specialists in the Gothic novel, the Romantic movement, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, and popular culture, this work contains summaries of more than two hundred novels, reputed to be Gothic, published in English between 1790 and 1830. Also included are indexes of titles and characters and an extensive index of characteristic objects, motifs, and themes that recur in the novels -- such as corpses, bloody and otherwise, dungeons, secret passageways, filicide, fratricide, infanticide, matricide, patricide, and suicide. The novels described, including those by such writers as Charlotte Dacre, Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Regina Maria Roche, Charles Maturin, and Mary Shelley, are for the most part out of print and circulation and are unavailable except in rare book rooms. Thus this book provides the researcher with ready access to information that would otherwise be difficult to obtain.

Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447486838
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Works Of William Hazlitt written by William Hazlitt and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by William Hazlitt is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a collection of essays on various subjects by one of the unsung masters of the English language. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in English literature. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : S. Vanacker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137291567
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle written by S. Vanacker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity.