Download or read book Il trafugatore di salme written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Leone Editore. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fettes studia medicina a Edimburgo e lavora e riceve ospitalità dall’anatomista mister K. Fettes è incaricato di ricevere i corpi portati per la dissezione. In un’occasione, Fettes identifica il corpo di una donna che conosceva, ed è convinto che sia stata uccisa. Ma un altro studente, Macfarlane, lo convince a non denunciare l’accaduto, perché sarebbero entrambi implicati nel crimine.
Download or read book Il mistero di Marie Rog t written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Leone Editore. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parigi, una grisette di nome Marie Rogêt scompare per due volte. Quando il suo cadavere viene rinvenuto lungo l’argine della Senna, la soluzione dell’enigma sembra facile. Tutto si svolge fra dubbie prove raccolte, la scarsa attendibilità delle testimonianze, teorie più o meno affidabili, l’ansia di una città intera e… una traccia sottovalutata. Ben presto la polizia capisce che la verità potrà venire a galla solo grazie all’aiuto di Auguste Dupin.
Download or read book Markheim written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Leone Editore. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due uomini, un delitto, l’improvvisa esitazione dell’assassino che, dopo la morte della vittima, in maniera analoga a quanto avviene nel Cuore rivelatore di Edgar Allan Poe, vede la propria coscienza ripartirsi in due, dando forma a qualcosa che «non appartiene né alla terra né a Dio».
Download or read book Olalla written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Olalla" is a short story by the Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson. It was first published in the Christmas 1885 issue of The Court and Society Review, then re-published in 1887 as part of the collection The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. It is set in Spain during the Peninsular War. A Scottish soldier recovering from his injuries in Spain goes to stay with a local family, where he eventually meets the beautiful Olalla and falls in love with her. But things won't be smooth sailing for either of them...
Download or read book The Body snatcher written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Webpage containing full text of the story, the body snatcher / by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Download or read book The Body Snatcher written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadowy streets of 19th-century Edinburgh, medical student Fette becomes entangled in the sinister activities of his mentor, Dr Wolfe Macfarlane. As they resort to exhuming bodies for anatomical study, their morbid deeds soon lead to terrifying consequences. »The Body-Snatcher« is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, originally published in 1881. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON [1850–1894] was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. He is among the 30 most translated authors of all time and has been praised by Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, and Bertolt Brecht. Treasure Island is his most famous work, along with the gothic sci-fi novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.
Download or read book The Body Snatcher Fantasy and Horror Classics written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the timeless Treasure Island (1883), Robert Louis Stevenson is a hugely popular author, and one of the most translated in the world. First published in Pall Mall magazine in December of 1884, 'The Body-Snatcher' is based on characters in the employ of Robert Knox, around the time of the famous Burke and Hare murders. Many of the Gothic romance and horror stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book The Body snatcher written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Body Snatcher written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland, 1815: Fettes, a promising young medical student, comes to realize that the corpses he and his fellow students examine in anatomy class are stolen from graves. When it's his turn to procure a new subject for the table, Fettes believes he is up to the task. But he can't anticipate what will happen that night--or the body that will haunt him . . . for the rest of his life.
Download or read book Thrawn Janet written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small Scottish village the Reverends housekeeper is rumoured to be involved with witchcraft. As strange and terrifying events unfold, the villagers' darkest fears come to life. Stevenson's masterful use of the Scots dialect and atmospheric setting enhances the eerie and unsettling mood of this gothic narrative. »Thrawn Janet« is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, originally published in 1881. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON [1850–1894] was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. He is among the 30 most translated authors of all time and has been praised by Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, and Bertolt Brecht. Treasure Island is his most famous work, along with the gothic sci-fi novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.
Download or read book The Body Snatcher and Other Stories written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by New Amer Library. This book was released on 1988 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight stories deal with murder, a forced marriage, a romantic rivalry, a troubled killer, a decadent family, a genie-like spirit, a South Seas trader, and a bitter father-son relationship
Download or read book The Body Snatchers written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fettes studies medicine at Edinburgh and works under and lodges with the anatomist Mr K____ (Stevenson was probably referring to the anatomist Robert Knox, who infamously received bodies for dissection murdered by Burke and Hare). Fettes is also in charge of receiving and dividing bodies for class vivisection. One night, the body of Jane Galbraith, a woman Fettes had seen alive and well only the day before, is brought to the rooms. Fettes suspects foul play and confronts the class assistant Wolfe Macfarlane. Macfarlane confirms it was murder but warns Fettes to say nothing. After work one night, Fettes meets Macfarlane who is accompanied by an insulting and insinuating man called Gray. Later, Fettes is startled out of sleep by MacFarlane bearing Gray's murdered body into the dissecting rooms. Fettes is horrified by Macfarlane's crime, but his uncertainty of what to do keeps him silent. Meanwhile, he gives Gray's corpse to the medical students for dissection.
Download or read book The body snatcher and other stories written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collction of short stories by a natural story teller whose narrative romance often masked latent apprehension, sin and suffering.
Download or read book Rls written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Anatomy Murders written by Lisa Rosner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up the close and down the stair, Up and down with Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef. —anonymous children's song On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century, outflanking even Jack the Ripper's. Together with their accomplices, Burke and Hare would be accused of killing sixteen people over the course of twelve months in order to sell the corpses as "subjects" for dissection. The ensuing criminal investigation into the "Anatomy Murders" raised troubling questions about the common practices by which medical men obtained cadavers, the lives of the poor in Edinburgh's back alleys, and the ability of the police to protect the public from cold-blooded murder. Famous among true crime aficionados, Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, yet The Anatomy Murders is the first book to situate their story against the social and cultural forces that were bringing early nineteenth-century Britain into modernity. In Lisa Rosner's deft treatment, each of the murder victims, from the beautiful, doomed Mary Paterson to the unfortunate "Daft Jamie," opens a window on a different aspect of this world in transition. Tapping into a wealth of unpublished materials, Rosner meticulously portrays the aspirations of doctors and anatomists, the makeshift existence of the so-called dangerous classes, the rudimentary police apparatus, and the half-fiction, half-journalism of the popular press. The Anatomy Murders resurrects a tale of murder and medicine in a city whose grand Georgian squares and crescents stood beside a maze of slums, a place in which a dead body was far more valuable than a living laborer.
Download or read book Purified by Fire written by Stephen Prothero and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet A history of cremation in America.
Download or read book A Traffic of Dead Bodies written by Michael Sappol and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. It shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a vital professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. It also introduces the middle-class women and men, working people, unorthodox healers, cultural radicals, entrepreneurs, and health reformers who resisted and exploited anatomy to articulate their own social identities and visions. The nineteenth century saw the rise of the American medical profession: a proliferation of practitioners, journals, organizations, sects, and schools. Anatomy lay at the heart of the medical curriculum, allowing American medicine to invest itself with the authority of European science. Anatomists crossed the boundary between life and death, cut into the body, reduced it to its parts, framed it with moral commentary, and represented it theatrically, visually, and textually. Only initiates of the dissecting room could claim the privileged healing status that came with direct knowledge of the body. But anatomy depended on confiscation of the dead--mainly the plundered bodies of African Americans, immigrants, Native Americans, and the poor. As black markets in cadavers flourished, so did a cultural obsession with anatomy, an obsession that gave rise to clashes over the legal, social, and moral status of the dead. Ministers praised or denounced anatomy from the pulpit; rioters sacked medical schools; and legislatures passed or repealed laws permitting medical schools to take the bodies of the destitute. Dissection narratives and representations of the anatomical body circulated in new places: schools, dime museums, popular lectures, minstrel shows, and sensationalist novels. Michael Sappol resurrects this world of graverobbers and anatomical healers, discerning new ligatures among race and gender relations, funerary practices, the formation of the middle-class, and medical professionalization. In the process, he offers an engrossing and surprisingly rich cultural history of nineteenth-century America.
