Download or read book The Robber Bridegroom written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 1978-11-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace. In the clammy forests of Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and the muddy Mississippi River, the berry-stained bandit of the woods, Jamie Lockhart, saves the life of a gullible planter. In reward, Jamie is given shelter—only to kidnap the planter’s lovely young daughter, Rosamund. It’s an impulsive act that will have far-reaching consequences, and will set in motion a series of fantastic, murderous, and flamboyantly uncivilized romantic adventures. With legendary figures of Mississippi’s past—including notorious riverboatman Mike Fink and the thrill-killing Harp brothers—mingling side-by-side with characters from legendary fairy tales and the author’s own imagination, The Robber Bridegroom in an exuberant cocktail of fantasy, folklore and history along the treacherous Natchez Trace. The basis of the popular musical that has run both on and off Broadway, The Robber Bridegroom is “a modern fairy tale, where irony and humor, outright nonsense, deep wisdom and surrealistic extravaganzas becomes a poetic unity through the power of a pure exquisite style” (The New York Times). “As sly and irresistible as anything in Candide. For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful.” —The New Yorker

Download or read book Ballad of the Whiskey Robber written by Julian Rubinstein and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DESCRIPTION: Elmore Leonard meets Franz Kafka in the wild, improbably true story of the legendary outlaw of Budapest. Attila Ambrus was a gentleman thief, a sort of Cary Grant--if only Grant came from Transylvania, was a terrible professional hockey goalkeeper, and preferred women in leopard-skin hot pants. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against him was perhaps the most incompetent team of crime investigators the Eastern Bloc had ever seen: a robbery chief who had learned how to be a detective by watching dubbed Columbo episodes; a forensics man who wore top hat and tails on the job; and a driver so inept he was known only by a Hungarian word that translates to Mound of Ass-Head. BALLAD OF THE WHISKEY ROBBER is the completely bizarre and hysterical story of the crime spree that made a nobody into a somebody, and told a forlorn nation that sometimes the brightest stars come from the blackest holes. Like The Professor and the Madman and The Orchid Thief, Julian Rubinsteins bizarre crime story is so odd and so wicked that it is completely irresistible.

Download or read book The Robber Bride written by Margaret Atwood and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the wise, unsettling, drastic story of three women whose lives share a common wound: Zenia, a woman they first met as university students in the sixties. Zenia is smart and beautiful, by turns manipulative, vulnerable – and irresistible. She has entered into their separate lives to ensnare their sympathy, betray their trust, and exploit their weaknesses. Now Zenia, thought dead, has suddenly reappeared. In this richly layered narrative, Atwood skilfully evokes the decades of the past as she retraces three women’s lives, until we are back in the present – where it’s yet to be discovered whether Zenia’s “pure, free-wheeling malevolence” can still wreak havoc. The Robber Bride reports from the farthest reaches of the sex wars and is one of Margaret Atwood’s most intricate and subversive novels yet.

Download or read book The Robber a Tale written by James and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Case of the Red Bottomed Robber written by Richard Byrne and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young chalks are busy at the chalkboard but someone keeps stealing their drawings . . .Mrs Red calls Sergeant Blue to investigate but when the culprit is caught, he absconds in a cloud of chalk dust. The chalks find another way to lure the suspect into their hands and it is only then thatthey discover they've misjudged the poor chalk rubber all along . . .

Download or read book The Robber written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Robber Bridegroom written by Aariel Portera and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a German county north of Hamburg rests a town named Sommerwood, where Ruby and Rosa Muller, two enchanted sisters, live. Engaged to be married, Ruby is a feisty teenage girl, while Rosa is more subdued and mature. One day, their mother becomes ill, and Rosa sends Ruby to fetch help. But instead of aid, Ruby stumbles on the doctor's murdered body, then encounters a strange man she's never seen before. Throughout the county, young women are vanishing, and the king is distraught. Appointed to investigate the mystery, Sir Jonas Martin promptly travels to Sommerwood, the geographical center of the disappearances. There, he meets Ruby and Rosa, who are both taken with him. But when Sir Jonas discovers that Ruby's fiancé is the man she saw outside the dead physician's house, suspicions arise. As Sir Jonas follows a lengthening trail of bodies and danger, romance and passion deepens between the two sisters and their suitors, even as the suspense and tension build, leading to a surprising twist and conclusion in this delightful, engrossing adaption of a lesser-known Brothers Grimm fairy tale.

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Download or read book The Robber of Memories written by Michael Jacobs and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running through the heart of Colombia is a river emblematic of the fascination and tragedy of South America, the Magdalena. Considered by some to be the most dangerous place in the world, travellers along the river - for centuries the only route into the vast South American interior - were at the mercy of tropical disease, dangerous animals and precarious barges. A third of the victims of 'la violencia', Colombia's period of civil conflict which began in the 1950s, ended up in its waters. Townships alongside it have experienced some of the worst massacres in South American history. In 2011, Michael Jacobs travelled its whole length to the river's source high up in Andean moorlands controlled by guerrillas. In spellbinding prose, he charts the dangers he negotiated - including a terrifying three day encounter with the FARC - while uncovering the river's history of pioneering explorations, environmental decline and political violence. As Jacobs delves into the history of destruction and decay along the river, he also makes a deeply personal exploration into memory and its loss: not far from the river's banks lies a group of townships with the highest incidence of early onset Alzheimer's in the world. Jacobs reflects on the lives of his father, and his mother - sufferers respectively from Alzheimer's and dementia - as he travels upstream towards what comes to seem like a heartland of mystery, magic and darkness.

Download or read book The Robber written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Three Robbers written by Tomi Ungerer and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2009-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of three robbers who spent their loot on a castle for sad or abandoned orphans.

Download or read book The Robber Hotzenplotz written by Otfried Preussler and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Robber Hotzenplotz is a merry tale of two scoundrels, two friends, a toad-fairy, and an unforgettable escapade. The Robber Hotzenplotz works hard at his job, waking early to hide in the woods and waylay new victims. One morning Kasperl’s grandmother is sitting in the sun outside her house, grinding coffee in her new musical coffee mill—a birthday gift from Kasperl and his best friend Seppel—when suddenly Hotzenplotz, attracted by the music, leaps out to steal the mill. Sergeant Dimplemoser hears Grandmother’s cries and comes to her aid, but Hotzenplotz has evaded the useless police for years. So Kasperl and Seppel vow to catch the robber themselves. But catching robbers is not as easy as all that ... Kasperl and Seppel soon discover that even the best-laid plans can be foiled, especially when Hotzenplotz enlists the help of his wicked magician friend Petrosilius Zackleman, a gluttonous villain with a weakness for fried potatoes.

Download or read book The Robber Chieftain an Historical Tale of Dublin Castle written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Midnight Robber written by Nalo Hopkinson and published by Aspect. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deeply satisfying...succeeds on a grand scale...best of all is the language....Hopkinson's narrative voice has a way of getting under the skin."--The New York Times Book Review "Caribbean patois adorns this novel with graceful rhythms...Beneath it lie complex, clearly evoked characters, haunting descriptions of exotic planets, and a stirring story...[This book] ought to elevate Hopkinson to star status." --Seattle Times It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival--until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree. Here monstrous creatures from folklore are real, and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds. Tan-Tan must reach into the heart of myth and become the Robber Queen herself. For only the Robber Queen's legendary powers can save her life . . . and set her free.

Download or read book The Robber written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Robber A Tale written by G. P. R. James and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fiction presents a series of events circling a robber who has pulled off a couple of robberies in his life. Set in 17th century England this is a novel by G. P. R James, an English novelist and historical writer, best known for his first novel Richelieu: A Tale of France. He began to write romances and continued his production with such industry that his works reached 100 volumes at an early age. For 30 years, hardly a year went by that he failed to turn out at least one novel, and usually two or more, most of them "three-deckers" (three-volume). His books had considerable immediate popularity. Excerpt from the book "His age might be five or six and twenty, and his height, perhaps, five feet eleven inches. He was both broad and deep-chested, that combination which insures the greatest portion of strength, with length and ease of breadth; and though his arms were not such as would have called attention from their robustness, yet they were evidently muscular and finely proportioned."

Download or read book Lincoln s Grave Robbers Scholastic Focus written by Steve Sheinkin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true crime thriller -- the first book for teens to tell the nearly unknown tale of the brazen attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body. Reissued in Scholastic Focus, with an exciting new cover. The action begins in October of 1875, as Secret Service agents raid the Fulton, Illinois, workshop of master counterfeiter Ben Boyd. Soon after Boyd is hauled off to prison, members of his counterfeiting ring gather in the back room of a smoky Chicago saloon to discuss how to spring their ringleader. Their plan: grab Lincoln's body from its Springfield tomb, stash it in the sand dunes near Lake Michigan, and demand, as a ransom, the release of Ben Boyd -- and $200,000 in cash. From here, the action alternates between the conspirators, the Secret Service agents on their trail, and the undercover agent moving back and forth between them. Along the way readers get glimpses into the inner workings of counterfeiting, grave robbing, detective work, and the early days of the Secret Service. The plot moves toward a wild climax as robbers and lawmen converge at Lincoln's tomb on election night: November 7, 1876.A dynamic and thrilling tale from critically acclaimed author Steve Sheinkin.