A Mizerble, Thievin' Polecat !
A Mizerble, Thievin' Polecat !

Author: Earle W. Jacobs

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-07-18

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1477240691

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The stories from the life of Will Stuart begin a few years after the end of the Civil War after Will, a Civil War Veteran, finally made a rich silver discovery in the Comstock area not far from Virginia City, Nevada. Talk about a life of adventure and with some beautiful women thrown in for good measure! You will want to check out the three desperadoes, Slick Fariss, Pug Kratcher and Soapy Soapstene and their ventures into the crime business. Talk about your bad hombres, that Philo Ogden Peters is something else! Being an army deserter was not enough for ex private Peters; that was just for starters! What till you see what the Panther of the Pass is up to. And If that is not enough, how about some Chinese Tongs, a little SEX and then throw in some Pirates of the South Seas for good measure ! Aaand----that is not even all ! Gaahlly Ned !

The London Jilt
The London Jilt

Author: Charles H. Hinnant

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2007-12-11

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1770481745

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This entertaining novel’s full title, which claims that it will show “All the Artifices and Strategems which the Ladies of Pleasure make use of for the Intreaguing and Decoying of Men,” suggests that it is a cautionary tale. And in fact, The London Jilt is presented as the memoir of a courtesan by an anonymous editor who justifies its publication as a warning to young men. Yet the narrative is remarkable for its time in allowing the “jilt” to speak for herself, and she tells the much more sympathetic story of a woman who turns to prostitution only after her father is cheated out of his estate and she is thrust into the world without resources. Her struggles are as much economic as they are sexual, and include encounters with a wide variety of amorous but unsatisfactory men. This Broadview edition provides a critical introduction, commentary, explanatory notes, and appendices that incorporate selections from related contemporary works, including Spanish picaresque novels in which the narrator is a woman.