The City of Dreadful Night and Other Sketches
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 110
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lee Siegel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995-10-31
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226756899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel of horror and the macabre in India, featuring an American scholar. With the help of a vagrant storyteller he discovers reincarnation, magical transformation, flesh-eating demons and vampires. Lots of stories within stories. By the author of Net of Magic.
Author: James Thomson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-08-29
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 3387010338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: James Thomson
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-06-14
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 022608101X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the language of politics, journalism, and fiction. Victorian London was a world where long-standing traditions of class and gender were challenged by a range of public spectacles, mass media scandals, new commercial spaces, and a proliferation of new sexual categories and identities. In the midst of this changing culture, women of many classes challenged the traditional privileges of elite males and asserted their presence in the public domain. An important catalyst in this conflict, argues Walkowitz, was W. T. Stead's widely read 1885 article about child prostitution. Capitalizing on the uproar caused by the piece and the volatile political climate of the time, women spoke of sexual danger, articulating their own grievances against men, inserting themselves into the public discussion of sex to an unprecedented extent, and gaining new entree to public spaces and journalistic practices. The ultimate manifestation of class anxiety and gender antagonism came in 1888 with the tabloid tales of Jack the Ripper. In between, there were quotidien stories of sexual possibility and urban adventure, and Walkowitz examines them all, showing how women were not simply figures in the imaginary landscape of male spectators, but also central actors in the stories of metropolotin life that reverberated in courtrooms, learned journals, drawing rooms, street corners, and in the letters columns of the daily press. A model of cultural history, this ambitious book will stimulate and enlighten readers across a broad range of interests.
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Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1998-10-19
Total Pages: 916
ISBN-13: 0141958677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes room for several poem-sequences in their entirety. It is wonderful, too, in its discovery and inclusion of eccentric, dissenting, un-Victorian voices, poets who squarely refuse to 'represent' their period. It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, James Thomson and Augusta Webster.
Author: James Thomson
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Rechy
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 178283785X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBold and inventive in style, City of Night is the groundbreaking 1960s novel about male prostitution. Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling 'youngman' and his search for self-knowledge among the other denizens of his neon-lit world. As the narrator moves from Texas to Times Square and then on to the French Quarter of New Orleans, Rechy delivers a portrait of the edges of America that has lost none of its power. On his travels, the nameless narrator meets a collection of unforgettable characters, from vice cops to guilt-ridden married men eaten up by desire, to Lance O'Hara, once Hollywood's biggest star. Rechy describes this world with candour and understanding in a prose that is highly personal and vividly descriptive.
Author: Laurel Snyder
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 2011-09-27
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0375861696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of Any Which Wall, comes another story of magic and how it can change you. In Penny Dreadful the magic is small, but the transformation is big. Penelope Grey is a lonely, wealthy child in a nothern big city who, by a twist of fate, becomes Penny: a happy, poor child in the rural south. Rich with unusual and appealing characters, Penny Dreadful asks readers to think about who they really are and what they really want. For fans of Polly Horvath, Lemony Snicket, and Kate diCamillo!