Author: Graeme Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643131133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader. Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein: few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some surprisingly effective horror stories. The year after Little Women appeared, Louisa May Alcott published one of the first mummy tales. These ladies weren’t alone. From the earliest days of Gothic and horror fiction, women were exploring the frontiers of fear, dreaming dark dreams that will still keep you up at night. More Deadly than the Male includes unexpected horror tales by Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and forgotten writers like Mary Cholmondely and Charlotte Riddell, whose work deserves a modern audience. Readers will be drawn in by the familiar names and intrigued by their rare stories. In The Beckside Boggle, Alice Rea brings a common piece of English folklore to hair-raising life, while Helene Blavatsky, best known as the founder of the spiritualist Theosophical Society, conjures up a solid and satisfying ghost story in The Cave of the Echoes. Edith Wharton’s great novel The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer prize, yet her horror stories are known only to a comparative few. Readers will discover lost and forgotten women who wrote horror every bit as effectively as their male contemporaries. They will learn about their lives and careers, the challenges they faced as women working in a male-dominated field, the way they overcame those challenges, and the way they approached the genre—which was often subtler, more psychological, and more disturbing.
More Deadly than the Male
Author: Graeme Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643131133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader. Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein: few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some surprisingly effective horror stories. The year after Little Women appeared, Louisa May Alcott published one of the first mummy tales. These ladies weren’t alone. From the earliest days of Gothic and horror fiction, women were exploring the frontiers of fear, dreaming dark dreams that will still keep you up at night. More Deadly than the Male includes unexpected horror tales by Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and forgotten writers like Mary Cholmondely and Charlotte Riddell, whose work deserves a modern audience. Readers will be drawn in by the familiar names and intrigued by their rare stories. In The Beckside Boggle, Alice Rea brings a common piece of English folklore to hair-raising life, while Helene Blavatsky, best known as the founder of the spiritualist Theosophical Society, conjures up a solid and satisfying ghost story in The Cave of the Echoes. Edith Wharton’s great novel The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer prize, yet her horror stories are known only to a comparative few. Readers will discover lost and forgotten women who wrote horror every bit as effectively as their male contemporaries. They will learn about their lives and careers, the challenges they faced as women working in a male-dominated field, the way they overcame those challenges, and the way they approached the genre—which was often subtler, more psychological, and more disturbing.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643131133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader. Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein: few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some surprisingly effective horror stories. The year after Little Women appeared, Louisa May Alcott published one of the first mummy tales. These ladies weren’t alone. From the earliest days of Gothic and horror fiction, women were exploring the frontiers of fear, dreaming dark dreams that will still keep you up at night. More Deadly than the Male includes unexpected horror tales by Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and forgotten writers like Mary Cholmondely and Charlotte Riddell, whose work deserves a modern audience. Readers will be drawn in by the familiar names and intrigued by their rare stories. In The Beckside Boggle, Alice Rea brings a common piece of English folklore to hair-raising life, while Helene Blavatsky, best known as the founder of the spiritualist Theosophical Society, conjures up a solid and satisfying ghost story in The Cave of the Echoes. Edith Wharton’s great novel The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer prize, yet her horror stories are known only to a comparative few. Readers will discover lost and forgotten women who wrote horror every bit as effectively as their male contemporaries. They will learn about their lives and careers, the challenges they faced as women working in a male-dominated field, the way they overcame those challenges, and the way they approached the genre—which was often subtler, more psychological, and more disturbing.
More Deadly Than the Male
Author: James Hadley Chase
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 1842321145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
George Fraser is a lonely man, and a bored man. But he has exciting dreams. In his dreams, he lives in a thrilling world of gangsters, guns, fast cars and beautiful women. And of course, in his dreams, he is the toughest gangster of them all. George Fraser prefers his dream world to his real, ordinary life so he begins to boast about it, pretending that he is, in fact, a hardened and ruthless gangster. But George Fraser boasts to the wrong people and suddenly his dream world becomes all too real.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 1842321145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
George Fraser is a lonely man, and a bored man. But he has exciting dreams. In his dreams, he lives in a thrilling world of gangsters, guns, fast cars and beautiful women. And of course, in his dreams, he is the toughest gangster of them all. George Fraser prefers his dream world to his real, ordinary life so he begins to boast about it, pretending that he is, in fact, a hardened and ruthless gangster. But George Fraser boasts to the wrong people and suddenly his dream world becomes all too real.
More Deadly than the Male
Author: James Hadley Chase
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471903303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
George Fraser, a lonely, timid fellow, lives in a dream world of gangsters, gunfights and beautiful women. He begins to imagine himself as the toughest gangster of them all to bolster up his feeling of inferiority. But George boasts once too often - and to the wrong person. From that moment on, harmless George is caught up in a deadly net of intrigue, and finds himself committing the deadliest act of all ... 'An intelligent and harshly revealing piece of work with not a little serious penetration and power' The Times
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471903303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
George Fraser, a lonely, timid fellow, lives in a dream world of gangsters, gunfights and beautiful women. He begins to imagine himself as the toughest gangster of them all to bolster up his feeling of inferiority. But George boasts once too often - and to the wrong person. From that moment on, harmless George is caught up in a deadly net of intrigue, and finds himself committing the deadliest act of all ... 'An intelligent and harshly revealing piece of work with not a little serious penetration and power' The Times
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES: is more deadly than the male
Author: A. Machin Taylor
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326033557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
British secret agent Susan Collis is shot whilst on a mission in Croatia, and retires to Scotland under an assumed identity of Ann Cameron to manage a sporting estate owned by a successful London businessman, Anthony Barron. Ann falls in love with Anthony and the pair marry, but her happy settled life in the Highlands and London is disrupted when she and her former colleague, Rose Armstrong, discover evidence of corruption in Ann's old department in the MOD. And when the life of Susan's former partner and close friend, Jess, is put in danger, Susan decides to return to work to uncover the truth about the numerous threats, both foreign and domestic, which imperil not only their lives, but also the security of the nation. Their investigation identifies a criminal in the MOD and a double agent within MI6 whose threats are removed.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326033557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
British secret agent Susan Collis is shot whilst on a mission in Croatia, and retires to Scotland under an assumed identity of Ann Cameron to manage a sporting estate owned by a successful London businessman, Anthony Barron. Ann falls in love with Anthony and the pair marry, but her happy settled life in the Highlands and London is disrupted when she and her former colleague, Rose Armstrong, discover evidence of corruption in Ann's old department in the MOD. And when the life of Susan's former partner and close friend, Jess, is put in danger, Susan decides to return to work to uncover the truth about the numerous threats, both foreign and domestic, which imperil not only their lives, but also the security of the nation. Their investigation identifies a criminal in the MOD and a double agent within MI6 whose threats are removed.
Deadlier Than the Male
Author: Alix Kirsta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Invisible Women
Author: Caroline Criado Perez
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683353145
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women. #1 International Bestseller * Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias: in time, in money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates this shocking root cause of gender inequality in Invisible Women. Examining the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more, Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women’s lives. Product designers use a “one-size-fits-all” approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software, when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. Cities prioritize men’s needs when designing public transportation, roads, and even snow removal, neglecting to consider women’s safety or unique responsibilities and travel patterns. And in medical research, women have largely been excluded from studies and textbooks, leaving them chronically misunderstood, mistreated, and misdiagnosed. Built on hundreds of studies in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, highly readable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683353145
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women. #1 International Bestseller * Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias: in time, in money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates this shocking root cause of gender inequality in Invisible Women. Examining the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more, Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women’s lives. Product designers use a “one-size-fits-all” approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software, when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. Cities prioritize men’s needs when designing public transportation, roads, and even snow removal, neglecting to consider women’s safety or unique responsibilities and travel patterns. And in medical research, women have largely been excluded from studies and textbooks, leaving them chronically misunderstood, mistreated, and misdiagnosed. Built on hundreds of studies in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, highly readable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.
Charlatan
Author: Pope Brock
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307409651
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA Today In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility. It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest men–and a national celebrity. The great quack buster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country’ s “most daring and dangerous” charlatan out of business, yet each effort seemed only to spur Brinkley to new heights of ingenuity, and the worlds of advertising, broadcasting, and politics soon proved to be equally fertile grounds for his potent brand of flimflam. Culminating in a decisive courtroom confrontation, Charlatan is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America ripe for the bamboozling.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307409651
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA Today In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility. It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest men–and a national celebrity. The great quack buster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country’ s “most daring and dangerous” charlatan out of business, yet each effort seemed only to spur Brinkley to new heights of ingenuity, and the worlds of advertising, broadcasting, and politics soon proved to be equally fertile grounds for his potent brand of flimflam. Culminating in a decisive courtroom confrontation, Charlatan is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America ripe for the bamboozling.
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Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 4979
Book Description
The 'Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)' showcases the prolific writings of the esteemed author, Rudyard Kipling. Known for his rich storytelling, Kipling's works delve into themes of imperialism, colonialism, and the human experience. The book presents a comprehensive collection of his stories, poems, and essays, providing readers with a glimpse into the literary world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Kipling's vivid imagery and captivating narratives make this collection a must-read for those interested in classic literature. His unique blend of adventure, patriotism, and social commentary sets him apart as a master of the craft. Readers can explore the complexities of the British Empire and the cultural clashes of the time through Kipling's nuanced portrayals. Rudyard Kipling, a British author and Nobel Prize winner, drew inspiration from his own experiences growing up in British India. His firsthand knowledge of colonial life and his perspectives on the interconnectedness of cultures deeply influenced his writing. Kipling's ability to evoke a sense of time and place in his works reflects his keen observations and understanding of the world around him. His talent for storytelling has earned him a lasting legacy in the literary canon. I highly recommend the 'Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling' to readers who appreciate classic literature and insightful commentary on society. Kipling's masterful storytelling and profound themes make this collection a timeless treasure that continues to resonate with audiences today.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 4979
Book Description
The 'Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)' showcases the prolific writings of the esteemed author, Rudyard Kipling. Known for his rich storytelling, Kipling's works delve into themes of imperialism, colonialism, and the human experience. The book presents a comprehensive collection of his stories, poems, and essays, providing readers with a glimpse into the literary world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Kipling's vivid imagery and captivating narratives make this collection a must-read for those interested in classic literature. His unique blend of adventure, patriotism, and social commentary sets him apart as a master of the craft. Readers can explore the complexities of the British Empire and the cultural clashes of the time through Kipling's nuanced portrayals. Rudyard Kipling, a British author and Nobel Prize winner, drew inspiration from his own experiences growing up in British India. His firsthand knowledge of colonial life and his perspectives on the interconnectedness of cultures deeply influenced his writing. Kipling's ability to evoke a sense of time and place in his works reflects his keen observations and understanding of the world around him. His talent for storytelling has earned him a lasting legacy in the literary canon. I highly recommend the 'Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling' to readers who appreciate classic literature and insightful commentary on society. Kipling's masterful storytelling and profound themes make this collection a timeless treasure that continues to resonate with audiences today.
The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 4982
Book Description
The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition) showcases the diverse literary talents of the author, from his iconic poems such as 'If' to his captivating short stories like 'The Jungle Book.' Kipling's writing style is characterized by a vibrant use of language and a deep exploration of themes such as imperialism, identity, and morality. This illustrated edition provides readers with a visual element to enhance their understanding of Kipling's works, making it a comprehensive collection for both scholars and enthusiasts of classic literature. In the context of late 19th and early 20th-century British literature, Kipling's works stand out for their cultural insights and timeless relevance. His ability to depict the complexities of the human experience through various genres makes this collection a valuable addition to any library. Rudyard Kipling, an acclaimed British author and Nobel Prize winner, drew inspiration from his extensive travels and experiences living in colonial India. His unique perspective on imperialism and cultural identity informed his writing, leading to a body of work that continues to resonate with modern readers. Kipling's profound understanding of human nature shines through in his stories and poems, making him a literary figure worth exploring for those interested in the complexities of the human condition. I highly recommend The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition) to readers who appreciate rich language, thought-provoking themes, and masterful storytelling. This anthology offers a comprehensive overview of Kipling's literary legacy and serves as a timeless source of wisdom and entertainment for those who delve into its pages.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 4982
Book Description
The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition) showcases the diverse literary talents of the author, from his iconic poems such as 'If' to his captivating short stories like 'The Jungle Book.' Kipling's writing style is characterized by a vibrant use of language and a deep exploration of themes such as imperialism, identity, and morality. This illustrated edition provides readers with a visual element to enhance their understanding of Kipling's works, making it a comprehensive collection for both scholars and enthusiasts of classic literature. In the context of late 19th and early 20th-century British literature, Kipling's works stand out for their cultural insights and timeless relevance. His ability to depict the complexities of the human experience through various genres makes this collection a valuable addition to any library. Rudyard Kipling, an acclaimed British author and Nobel Prize winner, drew inspiration from his extensive travels and experiences living in colonial India. His unique perspective on imperialism and cultural identity informed his writing, leading to a body of work that continues to resonate with modern readers. Kipling's profound understanding of human nature shines through in his stories and poems, making him a literary figure worth exploring for those interested in the complexities of the human condition. I highly recommend The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition) to readers who appreciate rich language, thought-provoking themes, and masterful storytelling. This anthology offers a comprehensive overview of Kipling's literary legacy and serves as a timeless source of wisdom and entertainment for those who delve into its pages.