Download or read book Jack Harkaway and His Son s Escape from the Brigands of Greece Being the Continuation of Jack Harkaway and His Son s Adventures in Greece written by Bracebridge Hemyng and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Australian Children s Books 1774 1972 written by Marcie Muir and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1992 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume One of reference work listing all children's books by Australians together with children's books about Australia from 1774 to 1972. Entries provide physical descriptions, dates, publishers, illustrations, awards received and, in some cases, remarks on the content. Entries are arranged by author. Title and illustrator indexes are included.
Download or read book Jack Harkaway and His Son s Escape From the Brigands of Grece written by Bracebridge Hemyng and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape From the Brigands of Grece by Bracebridge Hemyng
Download or read book Penny Dreadfuls and Boys Adventures written by Elizabeth James and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny dreadfuls - sensational stories published in weekly parts - were an important feature of Victorian popular literature. They were often anonymous, and inspired by the melodramas of the day. This is the catalogue of a comprehensive collection bequeathed by music-hall performer Barry Ono.
Download or read book Boys Will Be Boys written by E. S. Turner and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E.S. Turner's first book, published in 1948, is a wholly original, richly researched and uncommonly insightful study of a somewhat disreputable genre: the 'Boys' Weekly' papers commonly known as 'penny dreadfuls.' 'A classic of its kind... [Turner] ploughed through back numbers of the old blood-and-thunder adventure magazines specialising in cliffhanger serials; the young hero would be left hanging over a cliff in a totally impossible situation, which would be easily resolved in the next issue: 'With one bound Jack was free.' Social history had never been as much fun or, with three extra printings in its first week - such was the demand - as profitable.' Jonathan Sale, Guardian 'Some people felt that E.S. Turner may have invented a new kind of book - the popular social history, very British, very funny, but written with a glistening elegance.' Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books
Download or read book Emporium written by Edwin Barnard and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look at the Hilzinger washing machine, costing £3 in 1880. It certainly seems rather primitive but did it get the clothes clean and how hard was it to operate? And what about Dr Allen’s belt, powered by the magic of electricity? Could it really help with rheumatism and lumbago, as its maker promised? Advertisements can reveal a great deal about an age. Gleaned from the pages of long forgotten publications, such as The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Australian Town and Country Journal and Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil, together with dozens of regional newspapers, they paint an intriguing picture of the world of our great-great-grandparents. With over 450 images, this book is one to pore over and enjoy: perhaps that electric hairbrush really did cure baldness and wouldn’t it be wonderful of those strange cannabis cigarettes did relieve asthma? Advertisements for condoms? It was just a matter of knowing what to look for. In some ways it is striking how little has changed. It comes as no surprise, for example, to discover that colonial women found it hard to resist a ‘bargain’, nor that they worried a great deal about their complexions and the ‘sweetness’ of their breath. Colonial men had their own concerns, prominent among them those old bugbears of advancing baldness and retreating virility. For those seeking to revive flagging passions there were always the ‘racy’ tales advertised each week in the illustrated papers (price one shilling, posted in a sealed envelope). Equally striking are the many differences in attitude and outlook revealed by old advertisements. It is curious, for example, that for most of the nineteenth century nobody—except perhaps the very young—seem to have been much concerned about body shape. It was only in the 1880s and ’90s that advertisements began to appear offering products designed to deal with ‘unsightly’ corpulence or to plump out that ‘underdeveloped’ bosom. It cannot have taken advertisers long to realise that they were onto a good thing exploiting those particular anxieties. Emporium uses collections of advertisements as starting points in assembling a series of self-contained ‘snapshots’. Introduced by a section on shopping, a succession of double-page spreads, each with its eyewitness accounts and contemporary descriptions, work to paint a lively and entertaining picture of everyday life in the Australian colonies. Although this is a book about advertising, it is really also all about the everyday lives of nineteenth-century Australians. The focus throughout is on the lives of so-called ordinary people—the working men, women and children whose struggles all too often merit little more than a footnote or two in many of our national histories. How did they go about getting married? How did they plan their families? How did they keep clean? How did they cook their food? Advertisements can answer all these questions. Humorous – quirky – fascinating – you will find this book compulsive! Edwin Barnard is an author and designer with an enduring interest in the everyday lives of nineteenth-century Australians. His previous books include Exiled for the National Library of Australia. Edwin lives in Avalon NSW.
Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue of Books Standard and Holiday written by McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Gothic Bibliography Unabridged written by Montague Summers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important and unique work about Gothic fiction, by"the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction", Montague Summers.
Download or read book Ahead of the Show Or The Adventures of Al Allston Advance Agent written by Fred Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Boys Weeklies 1866 1899 written by Patricia Mary Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jack Harkaway and the Bushrangers written by Bracebridge Hemyng and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Prisoner of Morro Or In the Hands of the Enemy written by Upton Sinclair and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a thrilling adventure in 'A Prisoner of Morro; Or, In the Hands of the Enemy' set during the Spanish-American War in Cuba. Follow the heroic journey of Naval Cadet Clif Faraday as he ships out to Cuba and encounters treachery at the hands of the Spaniards. Despite being captured and held prisoner in the notorious Morro Castle, Clif remains steadfast and brave, serving as a role model for America's youth. This captivating tale of courage, perseverance, and humanity will keep you riveted until the very end.
Download or read book Catalogues of Sales written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of Australia written by John Alexander Ferguson and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spinning Tops Gumdrops written by Edwin Barnard and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinning Tops and Gumdrops takes us back to childhood in colonial Australia. The delight of children at play is universal, but the pleasure these children experience as depicted through the book's photographs is through their 'imagination, skill and daring' rather than through possessions. Children play quoits and jacks, hide and seek, cricket with a kerosene tin for a wicket, dress ups and charades. They climb trees, run races, and build rafts to sail on the local waterhole. The photographs show children happily absorbed in the play of their own making. Being a child in colonial Australia was also tough. It was a time when school yard disagreements were sorted out with fists and 'the loss of a little claret'. A time when children could view public hangings and premature death was frequent, especially taking the very young and vulnerable though dysentery, whooping cough or diphtheria. The lasting impression left by the contemporary accounts, photographs, etchings and paintings of colonial children in Spinning Tops and Gumdrops is their possession of qualities of resilience, self-sufficiency and acceptance of their lot. Perhaps it was through lack of choice, or of knowing no other. Nevertheless, these were qualities that put them in good stead for the challenges many faced in their adulthood. Interestingly, these are qualities on which contemporary society still places a high value, but which today seem a little more elusive.
