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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... kind and indulgent public , will , I trust , justify the hope that the present Tale may meet with similar encouragement . It certainly shall not prove inferior to any of its predecessors in the variety of its incidents or the interest ...
... kind and indulgent public , will , I trust , justify the hope that the present Tale may meet with similar encouragement . It certainly shall not prove inferior to any of its predecessors in the variety of its incidents or the interest ...
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... kind provider . Little Charley had already become much attached to " good Corporal Grimsby , " who had given him such a nice supper - while the latter gentleman , having finished his meal , drew forth an antiquated pipe , having a ...
... kind provider . Little Charley had already become much attached to " good Corporal Grimsby , " who had given him such a nice supper - while the latter gentleman , having finished his meal , drew forth an antiquated pipe , having a ...
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... kind of curiosity to see what sort of a creature it was who wandered the streets that awful night , destitute and houseless ; so I bade her come in , and with difficulty she followed me into the tap - room ; placing a seat for her near ...
... kind of curiosity to see what sort of a creature it was who wandered the streets that awful night , destitute and houseless ; so I bade her come in , and with difficulty she followed me into the tap - room ; placing a seat for her near ...
Índice
Acknowledgments | vii |
Introduction | ix |
Note on the Texts | lv |
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Venus in Boston: And Other Tales of Nineteenth-century City Life George Thompson Visualização de excertos - 2002 |
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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 |