A tragicomic account of a desperate woman's attempts to uncover the secret at the centre of her husband's life. Her quest for the truth will take her to London, New York, and Paris, where she finally discovers what everyone else has suspected all along.
A tragicomic account of a desperate woman's attempts to uncover the secret at the centre of her husband's life. Her quest for the truth will take her ...
"""Reader, if you can embody these descriptions, you have Ameer Ali before you; and while you gaze on the picture in your imagination and look on the mild and expressive face you may have fancied, you, as I was, would be the last person to think that he was a professed murderer, and one who in the course of his life has committed upwards of seven hundred murders."" Set in a British prison in Sagar, India in 1832, and inspired by actual events, Confessions of a Thug (1839) is the picaresque tale of north Indian Thug Ameer Ali, who strangled over seven hundred people in his lifetime. Kidnapped...
"""Reader, if you can embody these descriptions, you have Ameer Ali before you; and while you gaze on the picture in your imagination and look on the ...
Based on Sacher-Masoch's own erotic adventures in the late 1860s, Venus in Furs is a groundbreaking account of mistress-slave roleplay, fetishism, and mutual seduction. Venus in Furs is Sacher-Masoch's revolutionary attempt to imagine a world without male privilege.
Based on Sacher-Masoch's own erotic adventures in the late 1860s, Venus in Furs is a groundbreaking account of mistress-slave roleplay, fetishism, and...
Charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. This book maps the nineteenth-century British preoccupation with phenomena that rattled Western middle-class subjectivity: criminality, monstrosity, sexual transgression, alien cultures, and the breakdown of social norms.
Charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. This book maps ...
Charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. This book maps the nineteenth-century British preoccupation with phenomena that rattled Western middle-class subjectivity: criminality, monstrosity, sexual transgression, alien cultures, and the breakdown of social norms.
Charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. This book maps ...
Robert Louis Stevenson began his career as a witty and innovative essayist. This collection includes a selection of fifteen of Stevenson's most poignant, amusing and personal essays on subjects such as deep-sea diving off the coast of Scotland, child's play, death, the medieval poet-thief Francois Villon, surreal San Francisco, insomnia, and Stevenson's quirky enjoyment of ""unpleasant places"".
Robert Louis Stevenson began his career as a witty and innovative essayist. This collection includes a selection of fifteen of Stevenson's most poigna...
