Author: Barbara Millar
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244019932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Chiswick Villain was written by Barbara Millar in 2008. It is set in London in the days of Queen Victoria and concerns two notorious villains. Upon release from Newgate Prison they set off for Chiswick in west London and carry out a series of burglaries after targeting the rich residents in that area.
The Chiswick Villain
Author: Barbara Millar
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244019932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Chiswick Villain was written by Barbara Millar in 2008. It is set in London in the days of Queen Victoria and concerns two notorious villains. Upon release from Newgate Prison they set off for Chiswick in west London and carry out a series of burglaries after targeting the rich residents in that area.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244019932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Chiswick Villain was written by Barbara Millar in 2008. It is set in London in the days of Queen Victoria and concerns two notorious villains. Upon release from Newgate Prison they set off for Chiswick in west London and carry out a series of burglaries after targeting the rich residents in that area.
The Chiswick Villain, 1834
Author: Barbara O'Sullivan
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326325183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Chiswick Villain is a novel written in first person, and based on the story of James Ashley a Victorian criminal. It is based on factual evidence from criminal reports at The Old Bailey, London. Set in both Whitechapel where James Ashley was born, and Chiswick, West London in 1834. James was born to be a villain, just like his father. When James Ashley meets up with Moll Raby in Newgate Prison a romance soon springs up between them. James and Moll, upon their release from Newgate Prison, pledge to set out to make their fortune, and they make a formidable pair as they set out to rob, fleece, deceive, and otherwise deprive the rich Chiswick folk of their worldly goods, in the most effective manner, using every trick in the book, sometimes in the most comical manner, but were they ever caught? Barbara O'Sullivan Autho
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326325183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Chiswick Villain is a novel written in first person, and based on the story of James Ashley a Victorian criminal. It is based on factual evidence from criminal reports at The Old Bailey, London. Set in both Whitechapel where James Ashley was born, and Chiswick, West London in 1834. James was born to be a villain, just like his father. When James Ashley meets up with Moll Raby in Newgate Prison a romance soon springs up between them. James and Moll, upon their release from Newgate Prison, pledge to set out to make their fortune, and they make a formidable pair as they set out to rob, fleece, deceive, and otherwise deprive the rich Chiswick folk of their worldly goods, in the most effective manner, using every trick in the book, sometimes in the most comical manner, but were they ever caught? Barbara O'Sullivan Autho
The American Bibliopolist
The Evolution of the Book
Author: Frederick G. Kilgour
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195353366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Distinguished scholar and library systems innovator Frederick Kilgour tells a five-thousand-year story in this exciting work, a tale beginning with the invention of writing and concluding with the emerging electronic book. Calling on a lifetime of interest in the growth of information technology, Kilgour brings a fresh approach to the history of the book, emphasizing in rich, authoritative detail the successive technological advances that allowed the book to keep pace with ever-increasing needs for information. Borrowing a concept from evolutionary theory--the notion of punctuated equilibria--to structure his account, Kilgour investigates the book's three discrete historical forms--the clay tablet, papyrus roll, and codex--before turning to a fourth, still evolving form, the cyber book, a version promising swift electronic delivery of information in text, sound, and motion to anyone at any time. The clay tablet, initially employed as a content descriptor for sacks of grain, proved inadequate to the growing need for commercial and administrative records. Its successor the papyrus roll was itself succeeded by the codex, a format whose superior utility and information capacity led to sweeping changes in the management of accumulated knowledge, the pursuit of learning, and the promulgation of religion. Kilgour throughout considers closely both technological change and the role this change played in cultural transformation. His fascinating account of the modern book, from Gutenberg's invention of cast-type printing five hundred years ago to the arrival of books displayed on a computer screen, spotlights the inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs who in creating the machinery of production and dissemination enabled the book to maintain its unique cultural power over time. Deft, provocative, and accessibly written, The Evolution of the Book will captivate book lovers as well as those interested in bibliographic history, the history of writing, and the history of technology.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195353366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Distinguished scholar and library systems innovator Frederick Kilgour tells a five-thousand-year story in this exciting work, a tale beginning with the invention of writing and concluding with the emerging electronic book. Calling on a lifetime of interest in the growth of information technology, Kilgour brings a fresh approach to the history of the book, emphasizing in rich, authoritative detail the successive technological advances that allowed the book to keep pace with ever-increasing needs for information. Borrowing a concept from evolutionary theory--the notion of punctuated equilibria--to structure his account, Kilgour investigates the book's three discrete historical forms--the clay tablet, papyrus roll, and codex--before turning to a fourth, still evolving form, the cyber book, a version promising swift electronic delivery of information in text, sound, and motion to anyone at any time. The clay tablet, initially employed as a content descriptor for sacks of grain, proved inadequate to the growing need for commercial and administrative records. Its successor the papyrus roll was itself succeeded by the codex, a format whose superior utility and information capacity led to sweeping changes in the management of accumulated knowledge, the pursuit of learning, and the promulgation of religion. Kilgour throughout considers closely both technological change and the role this change played in cultural transformation. His fascinating account of the modern book, from Gutenberg's invention of cast-type printing five hundred years ago to the arrival of books displayed on a computer screen, spotlights the inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs who in creating the machinery of production and dissemination enabled the book to maintain its unique cultural power over time. Deft, provocative, and accessibly written, The Evolution of the Book will captivate book lovers as well as those interested in bibliographic history, the history of writing, and the history of technology.
Notes on books
Author: Longmans, Green and co
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Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Languages : en
Pages : 822
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The Book of Fate ... Rendered Into English ... By H. Kirchenhoffer ... The Seventh Edition
Author: Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The Encyclopædia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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