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. |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-3 de 74
Página 116
... took off his overcoat , and then wheeling the sofa in front of the fire , desired me to sit by him . This I did , with apparent hesitation , telling him there was nobody in the house , and I wasn't quite sure it was right for me to stay ...
... took off his overcoat , and then wheeling the sofa in front of the fire , desired me to sit by him . This I did , with apparent hesitation , telling him there was nobody in the house , and I wasn't quite sure it was right for me to stay ...
Página 188
... took the arm of the old gentleman and proceeded with him up Broadway . A walk of little more than ten minutes brought them to Reade street , into which they turned ; and in a few moments more the old gentleman paused before a handsome ...
... took the arm of the old gentleman and proceeded with him up Broadway . A walk of little more than ten minutes brought them to Reade street , into which they turned ; and in a few moments more the old gentleman paused before a handsome ...
Página 232
... took pains to instruct her in all the mysteries of city crimes . By parading the streets like a woman of the town , she enticed men to my Anthony street crib ( which you know communicates with the Vaults , ) and by the aid of the ...
... took pains to instruct her in all the mysteries of city crimes . By parading the streets like a woman of the town , she enticed men to my Anthony street crib ( which you know communicates with the Vaults , ) and by the aid of the ...
Índice
Acknowledgments | vii |
Introduction | ix |
Note on the Texts | lv |
Direitos de autor | |
55 outras secções não apresentadas
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Venus in Boston: And Other Tales of Nineteenth-century City Life George Thompson Visualização de excertos - 2002 |
Venus in Boston: And Other Tales of Nineteenth-century City Life George Thompson Pré-visualização indisponível - 2002 |
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 |