Book Description
Fantomas returns to strike fear into the hearts of American readers with a new, even more vicious and mystifying series of crimes, and again comes up against his arch nemesis, Inspector Juve."
Author : Pierre Souvestre
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
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Fantomas returns to strike fear into the hearts of American readers with a new, even more vicious and mystifying series of crimes, and again comes up against his arch nemesis, Inspector Juve."
Author : Pierre Souvestre
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345352972
Author : Eugène Sue
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Christian fiction
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Author : Eugène Sue
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Lee Server
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1438109121
Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
Author : John Alexander Joyce
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
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Author : True
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 1869
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Author : Richard Moran
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307425800
A "fascinating and provocative" story (The Washington Post) of high stakes competition between two titans that shows how the electric chair developed through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other. In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity” when he illuminated Manhattan’s Pearl Street with his direct current (DC) system. Six years later, George Westinghouse lit up Buffalo with his less expensive alternating current (AC). The two men quickly became locked in a fierce rivalry, made all the more complicated by a novel new application for their product: the electric chair. When Edison set out to persuade the state of New York to use Westinghouse’s current to execute condemned criminals, Westinghouse fought back in court, attempting to stop the first electrocution and keep AC from becoming the “executioner’s current.” In this meticulously researched account of the ensuing legal battle and the horribly botched first execution, Moran raises disturbing questions not only about electrocution, but about about our society’s tendency to rely on new technologies to answer moral questions.
Author : Oliver Gaycken
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 019986070X
Beginning around 1903, a variety of producers began making films about scientific topics for general audiences, inspired by a vision of cinema as an educational medium. Excavating this largely unknown genre of early cinema, Devices of Curiosity traces its development from its beginnings in England to its flourishing in France around 1910. Oliver Gaycken investigates how such films both relied upon previous traditions and created novel visual paradigms that led to the creation of ambitious new film collections. Gaycken also discerns a transit between nonfictional and fictional modes, seeing affinities between popular-science films and certain aspects of fiction films, particularly Louis Feuillade's crime melodramas. Drawing on the insights of the history of science as well as the history of cinema, Devices of Curiosity reveals the extent to which popular-science films impacted the formation of documentary, educational, and avant-garde cinemas. Book jacket.
Author : Haldane Macfall
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 1926
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