Author : Nick Carr
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1434490483
Nick Carr provides a comprehensive look at this extraordinary, forty-eight-chapter pulp serial, complete with character guides, plot points, and front-cover reproductions.
Author : Marilyn Nelson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0698407903
This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter’s confession shakes their tight-knit Italian-American family: The man who raised Dad is not his birth father. But the only clues to this birth father’s identity are a class ring and a pair of pilot’s wings. And so Connor takes it upon himself to investigate—a pursuit that becomes even more pressing when Dad is hospitalized after a stroke. What Connor discovers will lead him and his father to a new, richer understanding of race, identity, and each other.
Author : Bill Yenne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1101002662
Capturing the hearts of a beleaguered nation, the fighter pilots of World War II engaged in a kind of battle that became the stuff of legend. They cut through the sky in their P-38s to go one-on-one against the enemy—and those who survived the deadly showdowns with enough courage and skill earned the right to be called aces. But two men in particular rose to become something more. They became icons of aerial combat, in a heroic rivalry that inspired a weary nation to fight on. Richard “Dick” Bong was the bashful, pink-faced farm boy from the Midwest. Thomas “Tommy” McGuire was the wise-cracking, fast-talking kid from New Jersey. What they shared was an unparalleled gallantry under fire which won them both the Medal of Honor—and remains the subject of hushed and reverent conversation wherever aerial warfare is admired. What they had between them was a closely watched rivalry to see who would emerge as the top-scoring American ace of the war. What they left behind is a legacy of pride we will never forget, and a record of aerial victories that has yet to be surpassed anywhere in the world.
Author : Curtis Steele
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434474259
Ripped from the pages of the February, 1937 issue of "Operator #5" magazine, here is the lead novel -- "Siege of the Thousand Patriots"! Over the Rockies and down the Pacific slope rolled the Purple Emperor's great war machine, crushing the last vestige of American resistance. Operator 5, seeing his cause already lost, decided upon the incredibly daring, typically American action -- counter-attack! Read here of his mad, secret sortie through enemy territory . . . across two thousand miles of hell to the guns and ammunition which alone could stave off utter defeat for America!
Author : David M Earle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317070127
In the first half of the twentieth century, modernist works appeared not only in obscure little magazines and books published by tiny exclusive presses but also in literary reprint magazines of the 1920s, tawdry pulp magazines of the 1930s, and lurid paperbacks of the 1940s. In his nuanced exploration of the publishing and marketing of modernist works, David M. Earle questions how and why modernist literature came to be viewed as the exclusive purview of a cultural elite given its availability in such popular forums. As he examines sensational and popular manifestations of modernism, as well as their reception by critics and readers, Earle provides a methodology for reconciling formerly separate or contradictory materialist, cultural, visual, and modernist approaches to avant-garde literature. Central to Earle's innovative approach is his consideration of the physical aspects of the books and magazines - covers, dust wrappers, illustrations, cost - which become texts in their own right. Richly illustrated and accessibly written, Earle's study shows that modernism emerged in a publishing ecosystem that was both richer and more complex than has been previously documented.
Author : Gary Hoppenstand
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780879723569
The author examines the process of social life and the relationship of myth, popular formula, and the mystery genre to social psychology. The book presents social construction of reality theory as a methodology upon which the structure of mass-mediated popular fiction can be examined, postulating definitions of myth and formula and advancing a new language of literary analysis that acknowledges the socially defining, democratizing experience of popular fiction. Social-psychological analysis is focused on the mystery genre and examines its taxonomy, including the supernatural, fiction noir, gangster, thief, thriller, and detective formulas.
Author : Frank M. Robinson
Publisher : Collectors Press, Inc.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 1998
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1888054123
Pulp fiction' s lurid adventures were vividly reflected on the magazines' eye-catching covers. Hard-boiled dames, bizarre monsters, dicks and ' tecs, sinister villains, and muscled warriors all appeared each month to tempt readers out of their hard-earned dimes. This gorgeous full-color compilation features hundreds of the genre' s most thrilling covers and includes an index. Taken collectively, they provide a dazzling panorama of some 60 years of illustration and social commentary.
Author : Vicki Anderson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 17,81 MB
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786483024
With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popular with readers of all ages. This work looks at the evolution of the dime novel and at the authors, publishers, illustrators, and subject matter of the genre. Also discussed are related types of children's literature, such as story papers, chapbooks, broadsides, serial books, pulp magazines, comic books and today's paperback books. The author shows how these works reveal much about early American life and thought and how they reflect cultural nationalism through their ideological teachings in personal morality and ethics, humanitarian reform and political thought. Overall, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the dime novel's contribution to the genre of children's literature. Eight appendices provide a wealth of information, offering an annotated bibliography of dime novels and listing series books, story paper periodicals, characters, authors and their pseudonyms, and more. A reference section, index and illustrations are all included.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1585 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349813664
Author : Curtis Steele
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2007-07-10
Category :
ISBN : 1592240712
Operator #5, America's Secret Service Ace, appeared in 48 novels in the classic pulp magazine bearing his name. From April 1934 to November 1939, Jimmy Christopher fought villains from inside the United States and invaders from without. With World War II looming on the horizon, the Operator #5 novels became a reflection of the times, showcasing American fears of technology and oppression. In Liberty's Suicide Legions, after America has been invaded and nearly destroyed, Jimmy Christopher battles the forces of the insidious Purple Emperor, with the fate of the United States hanging in the balance! One of the bloodiest pulp magazines ever produced, Operator #5 has a well-deserved reputation for thrill-a-minute action and peril.
