Reading Robin Hood explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw - a figure who always represents the values of natural law and stands up for true justice - from the middle ages to the present. While a few books have described the outlaw myth, usually in its earlier forms, and occasional academic essays have commented on elements of the Robin Hood story, this is the first in-depth analysis of the whole sequence and the varying elements of the adventures of Robin Hood. First, it explores the medieval tradition from early poems into the long-surviving sung ballads - and also two...
Reading Robin Hood explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw - a figure who always represents the values of natural law and stands up for ...
London, 1902. A string of murders committed by a killer dubbed 'The Deptford Strangler' has the police mystified. The victims seem to have nothing in common, and the crimes appear random and motiveless. Meanwhile, retired Inspector Brough and his nephew, Nicholas Calvin, researching a book on the history of murder, unearth a series of killings committed in Rogano, Italy in 1454 identical in pattern to the present-day crimes. What possible connection could there be between these horrific events separated by almost 450 years? Brough and Calvin are determined to find out--but they are not...
London, 1902. A string of murders committed by a killer dubbed 'The Deptford Strangler' has the police mystified. The victims seem to have nothing ...
Jack l'Eventreur... Un nom d'anthologie qui brille au noir panthEon des criminels de lEgende - probablement le meurtrier anonyme le plus connu de la planEte. Sa cElEbritE durable repose sur son anonymat bien gardE. Plus d'encre a EtE rEpandue A son sujet qu'il n'a versE de sang dans tous ses meurtres; des millions et millions de mots qui, si nous les mettions ensemble, nous conduiraient... nulle part. Oui, nulle parte, parce que, quand tout a EtE dit, les indices accumulEs et EprouvEs, les thEories dEcomptEes et mises en balance, les arguments pour tel ou tel suspect passEes A...
Jack l'Eventreur... Un nom d'anthologie qui brille au noir panthEon des criminels de lEgende - probablement le meurtrier anonyme le plus connu de l...
In this book Stephen Knight, long-established as an authority on the genre and now back in Melbourne, tells in detail and with analytic coherence the story of a rich but previously little-known national crime fiction.
In this book Stephen Knight, long-established as an authority on the genre and now back in Melbourne, tells in detail and with analytic coherence the ...
