Venus in Boston: And Other Tales of Nineteenth-century City LifeUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 2002 - 391 páginas This volume reprints three short works by George Thompson, one of antebellum America's most successful authors of sensational fiction. There are two novels, Venus in Boston and City Crimes, which depict the American city as a place of dark mystery, along with Thompson's autobiography. |
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... Doctor , ( for it was he ) as with mighty and resistless strength he dashed the miscreant to the floor and deprived him of his knife . But the Dead Man struggled with all the fury of desperation ; with his iron hand he made rapid and ...
... Doctor , ( for it was he ) as with mighty and resistless strength he dashed the miscreant to the floor and deprived him of his knife . But the Dead Man struggled with all the fury of desperation ; with his iron hand he made rapid and ...
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... Doctor said to him- ' Sir , you seem to manifest very little interest in the fate of your friend ; you see he is dead . ' ' I care not , ' was the reply - ' his death causes me no grief , nor pleasure ; he was no enemy of mine , and as ...
... Doctor said to him- ' Sir , you seem to manifest very little interest in the fate of your friend ; you see he is dead . ' ' I care not , ' was the reply - ' his death causes me no grief , nor pleasure ; he was no enemy of mine , and as ...
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... Doctor , ' he with difficulty articulated , as a ghastly smile spread over his hideous features - ' I thank you for it ; although I hate and curse you in this my dying hour . Grant me a moment longer ; if the spirits of the dead are ...
... Doctor , ' he with difficulty articulated , as a ghastly smile spread over his hideous features - ' I thank you for it ; although I hate and curse you in this my dying hour . Grant me a moment longer ; if the spirits of the dead are ...
Índice
Acknowledgments | vii |
Introduction | ix |
Note on the Texts | lv |
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admiration American Antiquarian Society antebellum arms beautiful blood Bowie knife Captain cellar chamber charming Chevalier City Crimes concealed countenance cried Dark Vaults daughter Dead dear death delight devil Doctor dollars door dreadful dressed Duchess dungeon entered escape exclaimed eyes face Fanny Aubrey fear fiction followed Frank Sydney Franklin Fred Archer gaze George Lippard George Thompson girl Goldworthy hand handsome happy heart heaven hideous honor horror hour husband instantly Jack Jack Slack Jew Mike Josephine Julia kiss ladyship libertine look lover marriage masquerade ball mother murder mysteries Nero never night novels old gentleman P. T. Barnum passion person Peter York poor prison prostitution Raymond reader replied Romaine ruffian seated sensation fiction Sinclair smile soon Sophia soul street Thompson thou thought Tickels tone villain voluptuous whispered wife wine woman words wretch York young lady
Referências a este livro
The Cambridge Introduction to The Nineteenth-Century American Novel Gregg Crane Pré-visualização indisponível - 2007 |
The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. Pré-visualização limitada - 2006 |