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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... appearance defies you to form any opinion as to their age , with any hope of coming within twenty years of the truth . Not a single gray hair could be seen among the glossy curls that fell over his noble forehead- not a wrinkle ...
... appearance defies you to form any opinion as to their age , with any hope of coming within twenty years of the truth . Not a single gray hair could be seen among the glossy curls that fell over his noble forehead- not a wrinkle ...
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... appearance denoted them to be the most desperate and villainous characters which can infest a city . Not any of them were positively ragged or dirty ; on the contrary , some of them were dressed richly and expensively ; but there was no ...
... appearance denoted them to be the most desperate and villainous characters which can infest a city . Not any of them were positively ragged or dirty ; on the contrary , some of them were dressed richly and expensively ; but there was no ...
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... appearance sent a thrill of admiration and desire through every fibre of her frame . His figure , of medium height , was erect and well - built ; his gait was dignified and graceful ; his dress , in exact accordance with the mode , was ...
... appearance sent a thrill of admiration and desire through every fibre of her frame . His figure , of medium height , was erect and well - built ; his gait was dignified and graceful ; his dress , in exact accordance with the mode , was ...
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 |