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Books : Literature & Fiction : History & Criticism : Movements & Periods : Victorian
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This is a collection of all eighteen issues of The Pearl, an erotic journal published in London between July 1879 and December 1880--lewd short stories, scandalous gossip of the day, letters from lusty readers, and licentious limericks and naughty jokes.
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All night the astronomer's mind was on the stretch with curiosity as to what the Bishop could wish to say to him. A dozen conjectures entered his brain, to be abandoned in turn as unlikely. That which finally seemed the most plausible was that the Bishop, having become interested in his pursuits, and entertaining friendly recollections of his father, was going to ask if he could do anything to help him on in the profession he had chosen.
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The atmosphere of Bleak House, the sensuous thrill of Perfume, and the mystery of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell all combine in a story of murder, deceit, love, and revenge in Victorian England.
"After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper." So begins the "enthralling" (Booklist, starred review) and "ingenious" (Boston Globe) story of Edward Glyver, booklover, scholar, and murderer. As a young boy, Glyver always believed he was destined for greatness. A chance discovery convinces him that he was right: greatness does await him, along with immense wealth and influence. Overwhelmed by his discovery, he will stop at nothing to win back a prize that he knows is rightfully his.
Glyver's path to reclaim his prize leads him from the depths of Victorian London, with its foggy streets, brothels, and opium dens, to Evenwood, one of England's most beautiful and enchanting country houses, and finally to a consuming love for the beautiful but enigmatic Emily Carteret. His is a story of betrayal and treachery, of death and delusion, of ruthless obsession and ambition. And at every turn, driving Glyver irresistibly onward, is his deadly rival: the poet-criminal Phoebus Rainsford Daunt.
The Meaning of Night is an enthralling novel that will captivate re
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A young girl discovers hope in a cruel world! Young Rosalie lives an unhappy existence. The dazzling glitter of the theater caravan portrays a false glory. When better known, it is revealed for what it really is: drab, boring, dull and monotonousIn this setting, Rosalie lives with her deathly ill mother and unscrupulous father. Another harsh relative soon comes to dominate her life, as well. She meets other sad people too, including the disillusioned Britannia and the hard-working Betsey Ann.
But sorting through these unpleasant facts of life in search of truth and the meaning of life she meets her compassionate, merciful Aunt Lucy and the sometimes charming, always loveable Mother Manikin. These women provide hope to the young girl because they point the way to the real meaning of life!
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This edition of "Hard Times" contains an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. The novel tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imagination so essential to emotional well-being, and trapped in a loveless marriage.
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1924. This is the second book by Schreiner, South African author and feminist, who is best remembered for her novel, The Story of an African Farm. It contains eleven short stories based on Schreiner's dreams and life on a farm in South Africa. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.
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Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law.
Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender
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A collection of classic Victorian fairy tales by such authors as John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde.
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This novel describes in graphic detail the life of a child living in
slum conditions in London's East End (re-christened by Morrison
as "the Jago") in the Nineteenth Century including the permeation
of violence into everyday life.
Nineteenth Century London illustrations are included along with an essay
by Jane Helen Findlater on "The Slum Movement in Fiction".
This is one of Mr. Morrison's best known novels.
Arthur George Morrison was an English author and journalist known for his realistic novels about London's East End and for his detective stories.
Story Summary:
Dicky Perrott, the child of the novel’s title, is around 8 or 9 years old when we first meet him, though he looks several years younger. The Old Jago - based on the Old Nichol - is an area of slums that practically has its own laws and codes of honour. Policemen never venture in unless they are bolstered by numbers, and only then if one of the regular running battles turns particularly nasty. The novel follows Dicky as he grows up in his massively deprived surroundings, and as he falls into a life of petty crime, beginning with his stealing a watch and running home to show his father proudly what he had done. Then Father Sturt, the local parish priest, arrives and tries to offer the residents of the Jago a way out of crime and violence by encouraging them to go to Church. He sees potential in Dicky and arranges for him to work for a local shopkeeper - living in the Jago is enough to put perspective employers off so this is a real opportunity indeed. Sadly, though, Dicky’s job is sabotaged, and he ends up back where he began.
Interspersed with that deprivation, though, are some really touching scenes which demonstrate that Dicky is far from “all bad”, and in fact is not really bad at all but actually only an innocent victim of the inescapable poverty that infects everyone in the slums. .
Early in the novel an elderly resident of the Jago takes Dicky aside and tells him that the only way out of the Jago is to become one of the High Mob - or a successful criminal - because he’ll never be able to get a job coming from the slums. Dicky seems to want to prove him wrong, and indeed he does find another way out. But not a happy one.
A Child of the Jago is raw and angry in many places, and is probably more successful even than The Nether World in portraying the stark realities of the London slums. It was seemingly very widely read at the time - indeed Jack London makes reference to it in his 1902 non-fiction account of the slums The People of the Abyss - but Morrison has since fallen off the radar. Not a huge amount is known about his life, in part because Morrison seems to have given conflicting stories of his past to different people. Now, just over 100 years later, it is interesting to compare images of poverty then and now, especially in the light of the news that child poverty in the UK actually went up over the last year or so, despite promises from the government that they would get rid of it completely. It seems that now we have different ways of trying to deal with poverty - the welfare state; minimum wage - but it isn’t working. A Child of the Jago reminds us that these are problems that we have alwyas had. Kids with knives (for instance) aren’t a modern phenomena; they have been with us for centuries… and we still haven’t found a way to stop it.**
** A synopsis of a book summary from Feminist Book Worm, posted by Kirsty 3/30/09
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In his next volume, Geary takes us out to the wild west and the just opened up prairies of Kansas. Out on a deserted stretch of road linking newly forming towns, a mysterious family stakes a claim and builds an inn for weary visitors. Soon, reports multiply of disappearances around that area. Generally, those who disappear have plenty of cash on them. A delicious tale of a gruesome family fronted by a beguiling lass who led their victims on…
A SELECTION OF THE `BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2008` Guest edited by Linda Barry.
A YALSA (Youth Librarians) 2008 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVEL.
"ONE OF THE BEST COMICS OF 2007. Geary is working on a higher plane than just about every other comics creator in the business." -The Onion
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"I want to do you all good to improve your minds and to make you think if I can " writes the author in his typical light-hearted manner.
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Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson, accompanied by individual essays — by Thomson himself or social activist Adolphe Smith — that offer sharply drawn vignettes of lower-class laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and other street people. A treasure trove of astonishing historical detail.
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The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyond it. Though they were as much a part of the cultural and literary fabric of the age as imperial confidence, the best of the stories still retain their original power to surprise and unsettle.
In Victorian Ghost Stories, the editors map out the development of the ghost story from 1850 to the early years of the twentieth century and demonstrate the importance of this form of short fiction in Victorian popular culture. As well as reprinting stories by supernatural specialists such as J. S. Le Fanu and M. R. James, this selection emphasizes the key role played by women writers--including Elizabeth Gaskell, Rhoda Broughton, and Charlotte Riddell--and offers one or two genuine rarities. Other writers represented include Charles Dickens, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and R. L. Stevenson. There is also a fascinating Introduction and a chronological list of ghost story collections from 1850 to 1910.
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While sexual writing today is popular, it pales in comparison to the steamy and graphic, yet romantically inviting works authored during the 19th century. EROTIC TALES includes selections by such renowned authors as Emile Zola, Sir Richard Burton, Bram Stoker, Frank Harris, Charles Devereaux, and of course the inimitable Anonymous. A volume filled with passion with panache.
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No date listed, but presumably published during the 1890s. 6.5 x 9" white cloth hardcover with nice silver/gold/blue/red design & lettering. 284 pp with 20 b/w illustrated plates.
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This magnificent anthology presents the cornucopia of Victorian poetry within a single volume.