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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... girl of about the age of fourteen years , holding in her hand a small basket of fruit , which she offered to every passer - by . Now there was nothing very extraordinary in this , neither was there anything very unusual in the meek and ...
... girl of about the age of fourteen years , holding in her hand a small basket of fruit , which she offered to every passer - by . Now there was nothing very extraordinary in this , neither was there anything very unusual in the meek and ...
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... girl's solitude . At about noon , the door was unlocked , and the old negro woman appeared , bearing a plate of provisions and a basket full of clothing . Placing the food before Fanny , the hag bade her eat , a request readily complied ...
... girl's solitude . At about noon , the door was unlocked , and the old negro woman appeared , bearing a plate of provisions and a basket full of clothing . Placing the food before Fanny , the hag bade her eat , a request readily complied ...
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... girl like her , so unprotected and so poor , can no more traverse the streets with safety , than can a fine fat goose waddle into the den of a wolf unharmed . Curses on these lamp- posts , I am always breaking my neck against them - bah ...
... girl like her , so unprotected and so poor , can no more traverse the streets with safety , than can a fine fat goose waddle into the den of a wolf unharmed . Curses on these lamp- posts , I am always breaking my neck against them - bah ...
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Acknowledgments | vii |
Introduction | ix |
Note on the Texts | lv |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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 |