An ancient Egyptian evil known as 'The Beetle' has arrived in London to wreak a mysterious vengeance on politician Paul Lessingham. When this strange creature, 'born neither of God nor man', orchestrates the disappearance of Lessingham's fiancee Marjorie, it becomes a race against time to solve the mystery of the Beetle and save Marjorie from an unthinkable fate Told alternately from the points of view of Robert Holt, a clerk who is hypnotized into becoming a mindless slave, Marjorie, a beautiful and independent New Woman, Sydney Atherton, a cynical inventor of murderous weapons of war,...
An ancient Egyptian evil known as 'The Beetle' has arrived in London to wreak a mysterious vengeance on politician Paul Lessingham. When this stran...
Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857 1915), who wrote under the pen name Richard Marsh, was a bestselling, versatile, and prolific author of gothic, crime, adventure, romance, and comic fiction. His greatest success came in 1897 with the publication of "The Beetle: A Mystery," a novel that articulated many of the key themes of late nineteenth century urban gothic writing and outsold its closest rival, Bram Stoker s "Dracula," well into the twentieth century. This book, the first specifically on Marsh s work, establishes his credentials as a literary force within the late nineteenth century gothic...
Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857 1915), who wrote under the pen name Richard Marsh, was a bestselling, versatile, and prolific author of gothic, crime, ...
This collection contains new and innovative research into the work of the Italian antifascist partisan, concentration camp survivor, author and thinker Primo Levi (1919-1987). It features original essays by many of the world's foremost Levi scholars and by specialists in fields as varied as education, theology, and fine art. Levi's legacy continues to drive a vibrant, continually evolving body of interdisciplinary scholarship, as the contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume confirm. The essays gathered here demonstrate a remarkable breadth across five distinct yet...
This collection contains new and innovative research into the work of the Italian antifascist partisan, concentration camp survivor, author and thinke...
This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the New Grub Street, Marsh was an important presence within fin-de-siecle literary culture, whose middlebrow genre fiction simultaneously reinforces and challenges the dominant discourses of the period. -- .
This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the N...
