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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... secret thoughts of my soul ! He has once already snatched from my grasp my destined prey ; let him beware how he interferes a second time , for Jew Mike is in my employ , and his knife is sharp and his aim sure ! " " That d ― d ...
... secret thoughts of my soul ! He has once already snatched from my grasp my destined prey ; let him beware how he interferes a second time , for Jew Mike is in my employ , and his knife is sharp and his aim sure ! " " That d ― d ...
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... secret from the world ; you must neither of you breathe a syllable in relation to it , to a living soul . My motive for confiding to you the secret , is this : I may at times find it necessary to be absent from home for a day or so ...
... secret from the world ; you must neither of you breathe a syllable in relation to it , to a living soul . My motive for confiding to you the secret , is this : I may at times find it necessary to be absent from home for a day or so ...
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... secret of your crime shall not be revealed by me . But I warn you that the secret is known to another , who will probably use his knowledge to his own advantage ; the matter lies between you and him . I shall now leave this house ...
... secret of your crime shall not be revealed by me . But I warn you that the secret is known to another , who will probably use his knowledge to his own advantage ; the matter lies between you and him . I shall now leave this house ...
Índice
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 |