Author: Bracebridge HemyngPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Jack Harkaway thwarts a gang of Italian bandits and their noble supporters.
Jack Harkaway Among the Brigands
Author: Bracebridge HemyngPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Jack Harkaway thwarts a gang of Italian bandits and their noble supporters.
The Miss Stone Affair
Author: Teresa CarpenterPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439130671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates the drama of the country’s first modern hostage crisis—an event that captured the attention of the world, dominated American and European headlines, and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback for a trek across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia. In a narrow gorge, she was attacked by a band of masked men who carried her off the road and, more significantly, onto the path of history. Stone would become the first American captured for ransom on foreign soil. Using a wealth of contemporary correspondence and diplomatic cables, Teresa Carpenter tells the story of Miss Stone through narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. On a journey that takes the reader from Boston's Beacon Hill to Constantinople and the bloody revolution-wracked nation-states of the Balkans, Carpenter introduces an unforgettable cast of characters: the strong-willed Miss Stone and her Bulgarian companion, Katerina Tsilka, who is brought along by the kidnappers—in deference to Victorian convention—as a chaperone; the terrorists who threaten to murder their hostages and yet are awed when Tsilka gives birth to a baby girl; the diplomat who sees the Stone case as a vehicle for his personal ambition; rival negotiators whom the terrorists pit one against the other; a media mogul obsessed with finding the hostages and securing their literary rights; and, of course, the new president, Theodore Roosevelt, who must decide if he should, as many of his countrymen are demanding, send warships to the Near East or if some quieter form of intervention might win the day. Teresa Carpenter has produced a turn-of-the-century international thriller with precision, drama, and historical perspective. This is a story for our time.
McClure's Magazine
Author: Brigand Life in Italy
Author: Count MaffeiPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752587520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. A history of bourbonist reaction. Edited from original and authentic documents. In two volumes.
The New Monthly Magazine
Author: The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Author: Bandits in the Roman Empire
Author: Thomas GrunewaldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134337582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The book studies how the concept of the bandit was taken up and manipulated during the Late Roman Republic and early Empire (2nd c.BC - 3rd c. AD.)
Eclectic Magazine
Author: John Holmes AgnewTransatlantic Sensations
Author: John Cyril BartonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317008138
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a convincing case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. Transatlantic Sensations begins with the 'prehistories' of the genre, looking at the dialogue and debate generated by the publication of sentimental and gothic fiction by William Godwin, Susanna Rowson, and Charles Brockden Brown.Thus establishing a context for the treatment of works by Louisa May Alcott, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Dion Boucicault, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Lippard, Charles Reade, Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Thompson, the volumetakes up a wide range of sensational topics including sexuality, slavery, criminal punishment, literary piracy, mesmerism, and the metaphors of foreign literary invasion and diseased reading. Concluding essays offer a reassessment of the realist and domestic fiction of George Eliot, Charlotte Yonge, and Thomas Hardy in the context of transatlantic sensationalism, emphasizing the evolution of the genre throughout the century and mapping a new transatlantic lineage for this immensely popular literary form. The book's final essay examines an international kidnapping case that was a journalistic sensation at the turn of the twentieth century.
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