Author: Henry Kane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Frenzy of Evil
Frenzy!
Author: Neil Root
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409052249
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Murder has transfixed the popular press for centuries. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that murder began saturating front pages and making these monsters what we today recognise as modern celebrities. It was three serial killers, caught and executed in the few years after the end of the Second World War, who precipitated a level of public furore never seen before. Neville Heath, a 'charming' sadist who killed two women; John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Killer who killed between six and nine men and women; and John Christie, the ineffectual necrophile, who killed between six and eight women. The modern news coverage finds its roots with these three men whom the crime historian Donald Thomas called the 'Postwar Psychopaths'. Their crimes were the first to generate a tabloid frenzy the like of which we see all around us today. It was not only the murderers who captured the public's imagination. It was the detectives who hunted them down, the judiciary who tried them, and the man who executed them, the legendary hangman Albert Pierrepoint. This book tells the stories of these three infamous serial killers against the backdrop of the tabloid frenzy that surrounded them.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409052249
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Murder has transfixed the popular press for centuries. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that murder began saturating front pages and making these monsters what we today recognise as modern celebrities. It was three serial killers, caught and executed in the few years after the end of the Second World War, who precipitated a level of public furore never seen before. Neville Heath, a 'charming' sadist who killed two women; John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Killer who killed between six and nine men and women; and John Christie, the ineffectual necrophile, who killed between six and eight women. The modern news coverage finds its roots with these three men whom the crime historian Donald Thomas called the 'Postwar Psychopaths'. Their crimes were the first to generate a tabloid frenzy the like of which we see all around us today. It was not only the murderers who captured the public's imagination. It was the detectives who hunted them down, the judiciary who tried them, and the man who executed them, the legendary hangman Albert Pierrepoint. This book tells the stories of these three infamous serial killers against the backdrop of the tabloid frenzy that surrounded them.
Humanistica Lovaniensia
Author: Gilbert Tournoy
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789061861072
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Volume 29
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789061861072
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Volume 29
Areytos, Or, Songs and Ballads of the South
Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Bulwer's Novels
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Novels
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Anathemas and Admirations
Author: E. M. Cioran
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1611457815
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In this collection of essays and epigrams, E.M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluations—which he calls "admirations"—of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet Paul Valery, and Mircea Eliade, among others. In alternating sections of aphorisms—his "anathemas"—he delivers insights on such topics as solitude, flattery, vanity, friendship, insomnia, music, mortality, God, and the lure of disillusion.
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1611457815
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In this collection of essays and epigrams, E.M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluations—which he calls "admirations"—of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet Paul Valery, and Mircea Eliade, among others. In alternating sections of aphorisms—his "anathemas"—he delivers insights on such topics as solitude, flattery, vanity, friendship, insomnia, music, mortality, God, and the lure of disillusion.
The Complete Works of Aldous Huxley. Illustrated edition
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 5758
Book Description
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer who spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Huxley was a humanist but was also interested towards the end of his life in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. By the end of his life, he was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. THE NOVELS Crome Yellow Antic Hay Those Barren Leaves Point Counter Point Brave New World Eyeless in Gaza After Many a Summer Time Must Have a Stop Ape and Essence The Genius and the Goddess Island THE TRANSLATION A Virgin Heart by Remy de Gourmont THE SHORTER FICTION Limbo Mortal Coils Little Mexican Two or Three Graces Brief Candles Miscellaneous Short Stories SELECTED NON-FICTION The Olive Tree and Other Essays The Perennial Philosophy Science, Liberty and Peace The Devils of Loudun The Doors of Perception Heaven and Hell Brave New World Revisited THE MEMOIR The Art of Seeing
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 5758
Book Description
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer who spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Huxley was a humanist but was also interested towards the end of his life in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. By the end of his life, he was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. THE NOVELS Crome Yellow Antic Hay Those Barren Leaves Point Counter Point Brave New World Eyeless in Gaza After Many a Summer Time Must Have a Stop Ape and Essence The Genius and the Goddess Island THE TRANSLATION A Virgin Heart by Remy de Gourmont THE SHORTER FICTION Limbo Mortal Coils Little Mexican Two or Three Graces Brief Candles Miscellaneous Short Stories SELECTED NON-FICTION The Olive Tree and Other Essays The Perennial Philosophy Science, Liberty and Peace The Devils of Loudun The Doors of Perception Heaven and Hell Brave New World Revisited THE MEMOIR The Art of Seeing
Select Notes
Author: Mary Abby Thaxter Peloubet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Complete Works
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description