Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The City of Dreadful Night and Other Sketches
Author: Rudyard KiplingCity of Dreadful Night
Author: Lee SiegelPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226756899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A 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.
The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems
Author: James ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
City of Dreadful Night
Author: Peter GuttridgePublisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1780100507
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
"Be prepared for a long night. Guttridge combines period mystery, police procedure and noir in a fascinating tale whose only blemish is that you'll have to wait for the next in the series in its resolution” ― Kirkus Reviews, (Starred Review) The first gripping mystery in the Brighton Trilogy. July 1934. A woman's torso is found in a trunk at Brighton railway station's lost luggage office. Her identity is never established, her killer never caught. But someone is keeping a diary... July 2009. Ambitious radio journalist Kate Simpson hopes to solve the notorious Brighton Trunk Murder, and she enlists the help of ex-Chief Constable Robert Watts, whose role in the recent botched armed-police operation in Milldean, Brighton's notorious no-go area, cost him his job. But it's only a matter of time before past and present collide...
City of Dreadful Delight
Author: Judith R. WalkowitzPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022608101X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
From 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.
The City of Dreadful Night and Other Writings
Author: James ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781955190312
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
By turns allegorical, visionary, and satirical, The City of Dreadful Night and Other Writings combines Thomson's poetic magnum opus with selections from his poetry and literary-critical, belletristic prose pieces, written for The Secular Review, National Reformer, and Cope's Tobacco Plant throughout the 1860s and 70s. Harrowing and musical in its nightmarish visions like "Insomnia" and in the title poem, wryly comic and philosophical in his prose essays, here is an unheralded voice of a Victorian generation, which came of age with the publicization of Darwin's findings, and saw humanity definitively condemned to a godless globe, descended from beasts.
The City of Dreadful Night, and Other Poems
Author: James ThomsonSwastika Night
Author: Katharine BurdekinPublisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9780935312560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In a "feudal Europe seven centuries into post-Hitlerian society, Burdekin's novel explores the connection between gender and political power and anticipates modern feminist science fiction."--Cover.
The City of Dreadful Night
Author: Andre BagooPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781717493965
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Poem Brut, visual poetry, a book of prote(s)xt.
The City of Dreadful Night
Author: James ThomsonPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041450994
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description