Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Novels of William Harrison Ainsworth
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Novels of William Harrison Ainsworth
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Jack Sheppard
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brigands and robbers
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Lancashire Witches
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Boscobel; Or, the Royal Oak
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Windsor Castle
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Spectre Bride
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465603980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
The castle of Hernswolf, at the close of the year 1655, was the resort of fashion and gaiety. The baron of that name was the most powerful nobleman in Germany, and equally celebrated for the patriotic achievements of his sons, and the beauty of his only daughter. The estate of Hernswolf, which was situated in the centre of the Black Forest, had been given to one of his ancestors by the gratitude of the nation, and descended with other hereditary possessions to the family of the present owner. It was a castellated, gothic mansion, built according to the fashion of the times, in the grandest style of architecture, and consisted principally of dark winding corridors, and vaulted tapestry rooms, magnificent indeed in their size, but ill-suited to private comfort, from the very circumstance of their dreary magnitude. A dark grove of pine and mountain ash encompassed the castle on every side, and threw an aspect of gloom around the scene, which was seldom enlivened by the cheering sunshine of heaven.The castle of Hernswolf, at the close of the year 1655, was the resort of fashion and gaiety. The baron of that name was the most powerful nobleman in Germany, and equally celebrated for the patriotic achievements of his sons, and the beauty of his only daughter. The estate of Hernswolf, which was situated in the centre of the Black Forest, had been given to one of his ancestors by the gratitude of the nation, and descended with other hereditary possessions to the family of the present owner. It was a castellated, gothic mansion, built according to the fashion of the times, in the grandest style of architecture, and consisted principally of dark winding corridors, and vaulted tapestry rooms, magnificent indeed in their size, but ill-suited to private comfort, from the very circumstance of their dreary magnitude. A dark grove of pine and mountain ash encompassed the castle on every side, and threw an aspect of gloom around the scene, which was seldom enlivened by the cheering sunshine of heaven.
Rookwood
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Rookwood
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Murder by the Book
Author: Claire HarmanPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525520392
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"From the prize-winning biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Queen Victoria herself to wonder: can a novel kill? In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest social circles, was found with his throat cut. The brutal murder had the whole city talking. The police suspected Russell's valet, Courvoisier, but the evidence was weak. And the missing clue lay in the unlikeliest place: what Courvoisier had been reading. In the years just before the murder, new printing methods had made books cheap and abundant, the novel form was on the rise, and suddenly everyone was reading. The best-selling titles were the most sensational true-crime stories. Even Dickens and Thackeray, both at the beginning of their careers, fell under the spell of these tales--Dickens publicly admiring them, Thackeray rejecting them. One such phenomenon was William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard, the story of an unrepentant criminal who escaped the gallows time and again. When Courvoisier finally confessed his guilt, he would cite this novel in his defense. Murder By the Book combines the thrilling true-crime story with a illuminating account of the rise of the novel form and the battle for its early soul between the most famous writers of the time. It is a superbly researched, vividly written, fascinating read from first to last"--