Author: Crispin BoyerPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426320787
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Fatal facts that will test your fearless factor"--Cover.
The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
Author: Michelle MorganPublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472139488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
'Ghoulishly entertaining' Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement 'This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events.' Kim Fleet, Crime Review A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 filled the front pages for many weeks - as well as lesser-known transgressions that scandalised the Victorian era. The tales include murders and violent crimes, but also feature scandals that merely amused the Victorians. These include the story of a teenage man who married an actress, only to be shipped off to Australia by his disgusted parents; and the Italian ice-cream man who only meant to buy his sweetheart a hat but ended up proposing marriage instead. When he broke it off, his fiancée's father sued him and the story was dubbed the 'Amusing Aberdeen Breach of Promise Case'. Also present is the gruesome story of the murder of Patrick O Connor who was shot in the head and buried under the kitchen flagstones by his lover Maria Manning and her husband, Frederick. The couple's subsequent trial caused a sensation and even author Charles Dickens attended the grisly public hanging. Drawing on a range of sources from university records and Old Bailey transcripts to national and regional newspaper archives, Michelle Morgan's research sheds new light on well-known stories as well as unearthing previously unknown incidents.
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Author: S. D. TuckerLaughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930
Author: Jonathan TaylorPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030114139
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930 investigates the strange, complex, even paradoxical relationship between laughter, on the one hand, and violence, war, horror, death, on the other. It does so in relation to philosophy, politics, and key nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary texts, by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Gosse, Wyndham Lewis and Katherine Mansfield – texts which explore the far reaches of Schadenfreude, and so-called ‘superiority theories’ of laughter, pushing these theories to breaking point. In these literary texts, the violent superiority often ascribed to laughter is seen as radically unstable, co-existing with its opposite: an anarchic sense of equality. Laughter, humour and comedy are slippery, duplicitous, ambivalent, self-contradictory hybrids, fusing apparently discordant elements. Now and then, though, literary and philosophical texts also dream of a different kind of laughter, one which reaches beyond its alloys – a transcendent, ‘perfect’ laughter which exists only in and for itself.
The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton
Author: Jeremy ClayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781848317376
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"If you like black humour you will like Clay's eclectic compilation.""The Times" (UK) Deliciously dreadful and deliriously funny, "The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton" will have you, one way or another, in tears. Featured stories include: Wife Driven Mad by Husband Tickling Feet and Pallbearer Killed by Coffin in Graveyard."
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Author: The truth about socialism
Author: Allan L. BensonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
"The truth about socialism" by Allan L. Benson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Allan Louis Benson