Download or read book True Adventures of Richard Turpin written by Paul Sayer and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel telling the true story of the life and times of Dick Turpin, 18th century highwayman, robber and murderer.
Download or read book Dick Turpin written by Jonathan Oates and published by Pen and Sword True Crime. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin have such an extraordinary reputation today? How come his criminal career has inspired a profusion of often misleading literature and film? This eighteenth-century villain is often portrayed as a hero – dashing, sinister, romantic, daring, a Robin Hood of his times. The reality, as Jonathan Oates reveals in this perceptive, carefully researched study, was radically different. He was a robber, torturer and killer, a gangster whose posthumous reputation has eclipsed the truth about his life. In the early 1700s Turpin progressed from butcher’s apprentice and poacher to become a member of the Gregory gang which terrorized householders around London by robbery and violence. Then came his two-year career as a highwayman robbing travelers, his partnership with Matthew King whom he may have killed in Whitechapel, his murder Thomas Morris in Epping Forest, and his eventual capture and execution. Jonathan Oates recounts the episodes in Turpin’s short, brutal life in dramatic detail, basing his narrative on contemporary sources – trial records and newspapers in particular – and he traces the development of the Turpin legend over 250 years through novels, ballads, plays, television and film. The Dick Turpin who emerges from this rigorous and scholarly biography is in many ways a more interesting man than the legend suggests.
Download or read book The Pleasure of Reading written by Antonia Fraser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to the Give a Book charity In this delightful collection forty-three acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. Original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Gray, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend and Jeanette Winterson, while this new edition includes essays from five new writers, Emily Berry, Kamila Shamsie, Rory Stewart, Katie Waldegrave and Tom Wells. Royalties generated from this project will go to Give a Book, www.giveabook.org.uk, a charity set up in 2011 that seeks to get books to places where they will be of particular benefit. Give a Book works in conjunction with Age UK, Prison Reading Groups, Maggie's Centres, which help people affected by cancer, and various schools and literacy projects, such as Beanstalk, where many pupils have never had a book of their own in their lives.
Download or read book The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin Communicated by Mr Richard Bayes at the Green Man on Epping Forest and Other Persons of that County written by Richard Turpin and published by . This book was released on 1739 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Examples of Printed Folk lore Concerning the North Riding of Yorkshire York and the Ainsty written by Eliza Gutch and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Examples of Printed Folk lore Concerning the North Riding of Yorkshire York the Ainsty written by Eliza Gutch and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book County Folk lore no 4 North Riding of Yorkshire York and the Ainsty written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book County Folk Lore Volume II Examples of Printed Folk Lore Concerning the North Riding of Yorkshire York and the Ainsty written by Eliza Gutch and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the successful county folklore series - this book is packed full of superstitions, customs and old wives tales. A great book for anybody in or around Yorkshire, or with an interest in the rich folklore of the United Kingdom. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's 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 County Folk lore written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Serials and Series written by Buck Rainey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many fans remember The Lone Ranger, Ace Drummond and others, fewer focus on the facts that serials had their roots in silent film and that many foreign studios also produced serials, though few made it to the United States. The 471 serials and 100 series (continuing productions without the cliffhanger endings) from the United States and 136 serials and 37 series from other countries are included in this comprehensive reference work. Each entry includes title, country of origin, year, studio, number of episodes, running time or number of reels, episode titles, cast, production credits, and a plot synopsis.
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Download or read book The Dime Novel Companion written by J Randolph Cox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-05-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres, themes, and locales. An introduction provides a brief history of the dime novel. A discussion of dime novel scholarship includes a selected directory of libraries and museums with significant collections of dime novels. An appendix contains a publishing chronology of the more than 300 serial publications, and a selected bibliography suggests further reading. This comprehensive reference will appeal to popular culture scholars and to dime novel collectors. As an important research tool, entries are cross-referenced throughout. An index is included.
Download or read book Catalog of Captioned Films for the Deaf written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
