Ruth the Betrayer; Or, the Female Spy (Valancourt Classics) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ruth the Betrayer; Or, the Female Spy (Valancourt Classics) write by Edward Ellis. This book was released on 2019-02-05. Ruth the Betrayer; Or, the Female Spy (Valancourt Classics) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most thrilling of Victorian penny dreadfuls and possibly the first novel to feature a female detective, Ruth the Betrayer returns to print for the first time in over 150 years Ruth Trail leads a double life, working as a spy or informant for the London police while secretly executing her own black deeds of theft and murder. Over the course of the unflagging, action-packed 1100-page plot, we follow Ruth's criminal career as she uses her wits and beauty to gain wealth and power. Along the way, as we pass through the horrors of prisons, convents, and the criminal underworld, we meet a cast of memorable characters, including the murderous ruffian Death's Head, escaped convict Jack Rafferty, the sinister schemer Eneas Earthworm and his victim Alice Trevellyan, wrongly accused as a murderess, the bumbling but charming Captain Charley Crockford, and the unlucky Cadbury Kid. Originally published in weekly installments in 1862-63, Ruth the Betrayer; or, The Female Spy returns to print at last in this new edition, which includes an introduction and annotations by Dagni A. Bredesen, all 51 illustrations from the original edition, and an appendix featuring additional contextual material.
The Book of Ruth
The Book of Ruth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Ruth write by . This book was released on 1850. The Book of Ruth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Gothic Novel 1790–1830
The Gothic Novel 1790–1830 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gothic Novel 1790–1830 write by Ann B. Tracy. This book was released on 2014-07-15. The Gothic Novel 1790–1830 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A research guide for specialists in the Gothic novel, the Romantic movement, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, and popular culture, this work contains summaries of more than two hundred novels, reputed to be Gothic, published in English between 1790 and 1830. Also included are indexes of titles and characters and an extensive index of characteristic objects, motifs, and themes that recur in the novels -- such as corpses, bloody and otherwise, dungeons, secret passageways, filicide, fratricide, infanticide, matricide, patricide, and suicide. The novels described, including those by such writers as Charlotte Dacre, Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Regina Maria Roche, Charles Maturin, and Mary Shelley, are for the most part out of print and circulation and are unavailable except in rare book rooms. Thus this book provides the researcher with ready access to information that would otherwise be difficult to obtain.
The Female Detective
The Female Detective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Female Detective write by Andrew Forrester. This book was released on 2022-11-22. The Female Detective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Female Detective by Andrew Forrester is about a female detective who expertly evades suspicion while cracking the hardest cases. Excerpt: "Who am I? It can matter little who I am. It may be that I took to the trade, sufficiently comprehended in the title of this work without a word of it being read, because I had no other means of making a living; or it may be that for the work of detection I had a longing which I could not overcome."
A Short History of English Literature
A Short History of English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Short History of English Literature write by Harry Blamires. This book was released on 2013-02-28. A Short History of English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 2012. This work of introduction is designed to escort the reader through some six centuries of English literature. It begins in the fourteenth century at the point at which the language written in our country is recognizably our own, and ends in the 1950s. It is a compact survey, summing up the substance and quality of the individual achievements that make up our literature. The aim is to leave the reader informed about each writer’s main output, sensitive to the special character of his gifts, and aware of his place in the story of our literature as a whole.
