Author: Allan FeaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gow, John, 1698?-1725
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Real Captain Cleveland
Author: Allan FeaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gow, John, 1698?-1725
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
From Captain Penny to Superhost
Author: Mike OlszewskiPublisher: Gray Publishers
ISBN: 9781598511123
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Children's TV in Cleveland sprang from the creative minds of actors who often made it up as they went, with few special effects but lots of imagination. Barnaby, Woodrow the Woodsman, Franz the Toymaker, Romper Room's Miss Barbara, Jungle Larry... Their impact on Northeast Ohio kids was lifelong. These stories offer a glimpse behind the plywood sets.
The Last Days of Cleveland
Author: John Stark BellamyPublisher: Gray & Company
ISBN: 1598510673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
#6 in this Cleveland crime and disaster series includes 15 stories. Sometimes gruesome, often surprising, these tales are meticulously researched and delivered in a literate and entertaining style. Meet a daring Jazz Age stick-up man, a murderous grandmother, an ageless fire chief addicted to profanity, and other unforgettable characters.
The Antiquary
Author: Monthly Bulletin
Author: San Francisco Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: San Francisco Free Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Outward Appearance
Author: Stanley Victor MakowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Bookman
Author: In Accordance with the Evidence
Author: Oliver OnionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Treasure Neverland
Author: Neil RenniePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191668648
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Treasure Neverland is about factual and fictional pirates. Swashbuckling eighteenth-century pirates were the ideal pirates of all time and tales of their exploits are still popular today. Most people have heard of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd even though they lived about three hundred years ago, but most have also heard of other pirates, such as Long John Silver and Captain Hook, even though these pirates never lived at all, except in literature. The differences between these two types of pirates - real and imaginary - are not quite as stark as we might think as the real, historical pirates are themselves somewhat legendary, somewhat fictional, belonging on the page and the stage rather than on the high seas. Based on extensive research of fascninating primary material, including testimonials, narratives, legal statements, colonial and mercantile records, Neil Rennie describes the ascertainable facts of real eighteenth-century pirate lives and then investigates how such facts were subsequently transformed artistically, by writers like Defoe and Stevenson, into realistic and fantastic fictions of various kinds: historical novels, popular melodramas, boyish adventures, Hollywood films. Rennie's aim is to watch, in other words, the long dissolve from Captain Kidd to Johnny Depp. There are surprisingly few scholarly studies of the factual pirates - properly analysing the basic manuscript sources and separating those documents from popular legends - and there are even fewer literary-historical studies of the whole crew of fictional pirates, although those imaginary pirates form a distinct and coherent literary tradition. Treasure Neverland is a study of this Scots-American literary tradition and also of the interrelations between the factual and fictional pirates - pirates who are intimately related, as the nineteenth-century writings about fictional pirates began with the eighteenth-century writings about supposedly real pirates. 'What I want is the best book about the Buccaneers', wrote Stevenson when he began Treasure Island in 1881. What he received, rightly, was indeed the best book: the sensational and unreliable History of the Pyrates (1724).