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Stoker's Wilde

Autor: Steven Hopstaken , Melissa Prusi

Número de Páginas: 269

"Historical details and supernatural monsters abound, but it is the odd couple of Wilde and Stoker, with their diametrically opposed personalities and interesting quirks, that drives this story. Pass this volume on to readers who are hungry for more historical stories with a supernatural frame." - Booklist Longlisted for The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 2019. Years before either becomes a literary legend, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde must overcome their disdain for one another to battle the Black Bishop, a mysterious madman wielding supernatural forces to bend the British Empire to his will. With the help of a European vampire expert, a spirited actress and an American businessman, our heroes fight werewolves, vampires and the chains of Victorian morality. The fight will take them through dark forests in Ireland, the upper-class London theater world and Stonehenge, where Bram and Oscar must stop a vampire cult from opening the gates of Hell. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

The Federal Paperwork Burden

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee On Small Business. Subcommittee On Government Regulation

Número de Páginas: 544

The Haunt of Fear

Autor: J. Davis , Albert B. Feldstein , William M. Gaines

Número de Páginas: 215

Volume 1: "Foreword by Robert Englund -- Volume 2: "Foreword by Tim Sullivan -- Volume 3: "Introduction by Grant Geissman; foreword by Cullen Bunn -- Volume 4: "Introduction by Grant Geissman; foreword by Rob Zombie -- Volume 5: "Foreword by Clive Barker."

Shadowplay

Autor: Joseph O'connor

Número de Páginas: 328

Discover the enthralling Richard & Judy Book Club pick from international bestseller Joseph O'Connor. 'The best novel that I've read in the last twenty years... It's fantastic' RICHARD MADELEY 'Breathtaking... A hugely entertaining book about the grand scope of friendship and love' Sadie Jones, Guardian __________ London, 1878. Three extraordinary people begin their life together - and the idea for Dracula is born. Fresh from life in Dublin, Bram Stoker - now manager of the Lyceum Theatre - is wrestling with dark demons in a new city, in a new marriage, and with his own literary aspirations. As he walks the streets at night, streets haunted by the Ripper and the gossip which swirls around his friend Oscar Wilde, he finds new inspiration. Soon, the eerie tale of Dracula begins to emerge. But Henry Irving, volcanic leading man and impresario, is determined that nothing will get in the way of Bram's dedication to the Lyceum. And both men are growing ever more enchanted by the beauty and boldness of Ellen Terry, the most celebrated actress of her generation. __________ Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2019 Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 'A colourful tale of...

Palestine Commission on the Disturbances of August, 1929

Autor: Great Britain. Commission On The Palestine Disturbances Of August 1929

Número de Páginas: 1174

A Blood Winter

Autor: Neil Coley

Número de Páginas: 222

A thrilling combination of Science Fiction, Crime and Historical Fiction set in Victorian London and Yorkshire. It offers a compelling narrative as well as a fascinating take on 19th century social history.

Stoker's Wilde West

Autor: Steven Hopstaken , Melissa Prusi

Número de Páginas: 233

"Suggest to fans of paranormal alternative history featuring well-drawn characters and strong world building, such as Molly Tanzer’s Creatures series, Robert McCammon’s I Travel by Night series, or The Hunger by Alma Katsu." — Booklist Longlisted for The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 2020. Thinking they have put their monster-hunting days behind them, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker return to their normal lives. But when their old ally Robert Roosevelt and his nephew Teddy find a new nest of vampires, they are once again pulled into the world of the supernatural, this time in the American West. A train robbery by a band of vampire gunslingers sets off a series of events that puts Bram on the run, Oscar leading a rescue party and our heroes being pursued by an unstoppable vampire bounty hunter who rides a dead, reanimated horse. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Star Games

Autor: Ellis Delmonte

Número de Páginas: 209

Young Oliver Togg is selected to represent Earth in the 5000th Galactic Olympic Games. As Earth is being invited for the first time, a good impression is essential. Only if Oliver does well will Earth be invited to join the Galactic Community, but Oliver is shy and not very sporty. How will he perform?Star Games is a funny, thoughtful and exciting story for children aged 9 and over. "All the sporting events were great, like using a laser instead of a pole, and so were the descriptions of the planets" Maxim, aged 10 “4 stars out of 5”, Waterstone's Young Readers

A Brief Guide to Jeeves and Wooster

Autor: Nigel Cawthorne

Número de Páginas: 178

A comprehensive guide to P. G. Wodehouse's two best-loved comic characters, Bertram Wilbeforce Wooster and his valet ('Reggie') Jeeves, Bertie's friends and relatives and their world of sunshine, country houses and champagne. Although the stories may seem quintessentially English, they were for the most part written in the United States by a man who spent more than half his adult life there, eventually becoming a citizen in 1955. The first stories involving the two characters are even set in New York, while those that aren't are set in an England that has never existed, contrived to appeal to an American audience. Cawthorne offers fascinating insights into Wodehouse's world, his life - on Long Island and elsewhere - the wonderful short stories and novels and the many adaptations for stage and screen.

The League of Seven

Autor: Alan Gratz

Número de Páginas: 353

The League of Seven is the first book in an action-packed, steampunk series by the acclaimed author of Samurai Shortstop, Alan Gratz. In an alternate 1875 America electricity is forbidden, Native Americans and Yankees are united, and eldritch evil lurks in the shadows. Young Archie Dent knows there really are monsters in the world. His parents are members of the Septemberist Society, whose job it is to protect humanity from hideous giants called the Mangleborn. Trapped in underground prisons for a thousand years, the giant monsters have been all but forgotten—but now they are rising again as the steam-driven America of 1875 rediscovers electricity, the lifeblood of the Mangleborn. When his parents and the rest of the Septemberists are brainwashed by one of the evil creatures, Archie must assemble a team of seven young heroes to save the world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl

Autor: David Barnett

Número de Páginas: 294

Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world—including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of Captain Lucian Trigger, the Hero of the Empire, told in Gideon's favorite "penny dreadful." When Gideon's father is lost at sea in highly mysterious circumstances Gideon is convinced that supernatural forces are at work. Deciding only Captain Lucian Trigger himself can aid him, Gideon sets off for London. On the way he rescues the mysterious mechanical girl Maria from a tumbledown house of shadows and iniquities. Together they make for London, where Gideon finally meets Captain Trigger. But Trigger is little more than an aging fraud, providing cover for the covert activities of his lover, Dr. John Reed, a privateer and sometime agent of the British Crown. Looking for heroes but finding only frauds and crooks, it falls to Gideon to step up to the plate and attempt to save the day...but can...

Marijuana

Autor: India. Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893-1894

Número de Páginas: 536

Report, 1893-94

Autor: India. Hemp Drugs Commission

Número de Páginas: 510

A Curious Beginning

Autor: Deanna Raybourn

Número de Páginas: 354

The New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries returns once more to Victorian England and introduces intrepid adventuress Veronica Speedwell.... London, 1887. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as with fending off admirers, Veronica intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. But fate has other plans when Veronica thwarts her own attempted abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron, who offers her sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker, a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian. But before the baron can reveal what he knows of the plot against her, he is found murdered—leaving Veronica and Stoker on the run from an elusive assailant as wary partners in search of the villainous truth.

The Duke and the Siren

Autor: Jessie Clever

Número de Páginas: 265

Lady Vivianna Darby was considered a smashing success by society’s standards. After all, she landed Ryder Maxen, the coveted Duke of Margate, in her first season out. Wildly in love, Viv believed herself lucky to have escaped the cold marriages common amongst the ton. Until she found her husband in bed with an opera singer. Now four years later, Viv is determined to save her sisters from the same fate until Viv’s phaeton-racing husband suffers a deadly accident, and she’s forced by duty to go to his deathbed. Preparing herself for widowhood, she realizes she’ll soon be free of the empty marriage she’s been trapped in. But what will she do if he lives? The Duke and the Siren is the third book in the steamy, heart-stopping historical romance series, The Unwanted Dukes. If you love sexy, spellbinding romance and heartwarming humor, don’t miss this captivating series from bestselling author Jessie Clever. Discover adventure and romance when you download The Duke and the Siren today.

Land of the Dead: A Stoker's Wilde Novel

Autor: Steven Hopstaken , Melissa Prusi

Número de Páginas: 211

Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde unite once more to battle spirits and demons invading our world. Third book in the series. Grimdark Magazine called the first book an "addictive, clever and extremely fun horror adventure." Book 3 in the Stoker's Wilde series! Booklist on the first book in this series, Stoker's Wilde: "Pass this volume on to readers who are hungry for more historical stories with a supernatural frame." Science and the supernatural collide in this terrifying tale of witches, reanimated corpses and spirits invading our world from beyond the grave. Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde have returned to their lives in London after their adventures in the American West. Bram is managing a theatre and Oscar is rising to fame and planning his upcoming wedding when they are once again called upon to battle supernatural evil. Grief-crazed scientist Victor Mueller needs Bram’s unusual blood for his mad quest to bring his dead wife back to life, and he’ll resort to kidnapping to get it. Meanwhile, a young medium named Lorna Bow runs fake séances in London under the thumb of an abusive uncle. When her mother Endora returns, Lorna learns the truth: they come from a long line of witches,...

A report of the investigation of the cases of Messrs. Brumell, Walker, & Angus, before the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council ... with an introduction explanatory of the causes which led to the investigation

Autor: Incorporated Companies (newcastle-upon-tyne)

Número de Páginas: 40

Secular World and Social Economist

Autor: George Jacob Holyoake

Número de Páginas: 886

"The History of the Fleet Street House": 20 p. at the end of v. 18.

Newcastle Council Reports

Autor: Newcastle Upon Tyne (england). Town Council

Número de Páginas: 236

Creating a 21st Century Government

Autor: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Government Reform And Oversight

Número de Páginas: 864

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary

Número de Páginas: 702

The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl

Autor: Stacy Mcanulty

Número de Páginas: 322

A lightning strike gave her a super power...but even a super genius can't solve the problem of middle school. This smart and funny novel is perfect for fans of The Fourteenth Goldfish, Rain Reign, and Counting by Sevens. Lucy Callahan was struck by lightning. She doesn't remember it, but it changed her life forever. The zap gave her genius-level math skills, and ever since, Lucy has been homeschooled. Now, at 12 years old, she's technically ready for college. She just has to pass 1 more test--middle school! Lucy's grandma insists: Go to middle school for 1 year. Make 1 friend. Join 1 activity. And read 1 book (that's not a math textbook!). Lucy's not sure what a girl who does calculus homework for fun can possibly learn in 7th grade. She has everything she needs at home, where nobody can make fun of her rigid routines or her superpowered brain. The equation of Lucy's life has already been solved. Unless there's been a miscalculation? A celebration of friendship, Stacy McAnulty's smart and thoughtful middle-grade debut reminds us all to get out of our comfort zones and embrace what makes us different. AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "An engaging...

Approaches to Teaching Stoker's Dracula

Autor: William Thomas Mcbride

Número de Páginas: 148

This volume helps teachers contextualize Bram Stoker's Dracula in its historical and cultural moment, considering psychology, technology, gender roles, colonialism, and anxieties about the other. It also situates the novel among the kindred texts that have proliferated since its publication, from film and television to the growing genre of vampire novels. Essays explore the novel in terms of medical humanities, contagion, and the gothic as well as ethnicity, identity, and race. Contributors analyze Dracula in the context of various ancient and modern cultural productions, including classical Indian aesthetics and African American vampire literature, and describe a broad range of classroom settings, including a technical university, a Hispanic-serving institution, and others.

Point of No Return

Autor: John P. Marquand

Número de Páginas: 445

A #1 New York Times bestseller by a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist: A successful Manhattan banker is haunted by his humble New England roots. Raised in the small town of Clyde, Massachusetts, Charles Gray has worked long and hard to become a vice president at the privately owned Stuyvesant Bank in Manhattan. But at the most crucial moment of his career, when his focus should be on reading his boss’s intentions and competing with his chief rival for promotion, Charles finds himself hopelessly distracted by the past. Years ago, the Gray family was featured in a sociological study of their hometown. Charles, his sister, and their parents were classified as members of the “lower-upper class,” the unspoken strains of their tenuous social status cast in stark black and white. A chance encounter with the author of the study fills Charles’s head with memories—and when a business matter compels him to return to Clyde, it seems as if fate is intent on turning back the clock. As he reflects on the defining moments of his youth, Charles contends with one of the central mysteries of existence: how our lives can feel both predetermined and random at the same time. Published in...

Murder at the Natural History Museum

Autor: Jim Eldridge

Número de Páginas: 324

1895. When the newly dubbed 'Museum Detectives' are asked to investigate deliberate damage to a dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum, there is evidence that the fossil-hunting mania of the notorious Bone Wars in America may have reached their shores. But for Daniel Wilson, famed for his involvement in the Jack the Ripper case, and renowned archaeologist Abigail Fenton, events soon take a sinister turn. A museum attendant is found dead in an anteroom by none other than the infamous theatre manager Bram Stoker, who it seems may have had a personal connection with the deceased. Facing pressure both from an overseas business and local celebrity, Wilson and Fenton must rely on their talents and instincts to solve their most puzzling case yet.

Council Journal of the ... Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah

Autor: Utah. Legislative Assembly. Council

Número de Páginas: 1024

Administrative Procedure Act

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary

Número de Páginas: 612

The Pests and Blights of the Tea Plant

Autor: Sir George Watt

Número de Páginas: 506

Thank You, Jeeves

Autor: P.g. Wodehouse

Número de Páginas: 221

'My only problem with Wodehouse is deciding which of his enchanting books to take to my desert island' Ruth Dudley Edwards 'The most industrious, prolific and beneficent author ever to have sat down, scratched his head and banged out a sentence' Stephen Fry -- 'Your tea will be here in a moment, sir.' 'No, Jeeves. This is no time for tea. I must concentrate." When his incomparable valet Jeeves suddenly resigns, how will the hapless Bertie Wooster get by? Bertie's dedicated but somewhat untuneful playing of the banjo has driven Jeeves, his otherwise steadfast gentleman's gentleman, to give notice. Looking for respite, Bertie disappears to the country as a guest of his chum Chuffy, only to find his peace shattered by the arrival of his ex-fiancée Pauline Stoker, her formidable father and the eminent loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop. It seems Bertie cannot survive for long without Jeeves - and soon a situation arises which only Jeeves can solve.

Strand Magazine

Número de Páginas: 658

Antitrust Exemptions for Agreements Relating to Balance of Payments

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary. Subcommittee On Administrative Practice And Procedure , United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary. Subcommittee On Antitrust And Monopoly , United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary. Subcommittee On Improvements In Judicial Machinery , United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary. Subcommittee To Investigate Problems Connected With Refugees And Escapees

Número de Páginas: 1312

Considers H.R. 5280, to exempt banks and other financial interests from antitrust laws with respect to agreements and programs related to balance of payments.

The History of Wyandot County, Ohio

Número de Páginas: 1082

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Autor: William Hughes

Número de Páginas: 318

A concise, readable and comprehensive introduction to Bram Stoker's classic Dracula (1897) for undergraduates.

Report of the Examination of Law Students for Admission to the Bar, in the Supreme Court of Illinois ...

Autor: Illinois. Supreme Court , Myra Bradwell

Número de Páginas: 134

Public Services and the Third Sector

Autor: Great Britain. Parliament. House Of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee

Número de Páginas: 304

Incorporating HC 540-i-v, session 2006-07

Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Rackets, Fives

Autor: J.m. Heathcote , C.g. Heathcote , E.o.p. Bouverie

Número de Páginas: 556

The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

Número de Páginas: 768

Mr Stoker and the Vampires of the Lyceum

Autor: Matthew Gibson

Número de Páginas: 231

London, September 1888. Jack the Ripper roams the streets. A scream rings out from beneath the stage of the Lyceum Theatre...

The Lancet

Número de Páginas: 1246

Wonderful Wodehouse 2: A Collection

Autor: P.g. Wodehouse

Número de Páginas: 686

Thank You, Jeeves Thank You, Jeeves is the first novel to feature the incomparable valet Jeeves and his hapless charge Bertie Wooster - and you've hardly started to turn the pages when he resigns over Bertie's dedicated but somewhat untuneful playing of the banjo. In high dudgeon, Bertie disappears to the country as a guest of his chum Chuffy - only to find his peace shattered by the arrival of his ex-fiancée Pauline Stoker, her formidable father and the eminent loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop. When Chuffy falls in love with Pauline and Bertie seems to be caught in flagrante, a situation boils up which only Jeeves (whether employed or not) can simmer down... Right-Ho, Jeeves Gussie Fink-Nottle's knowledge of the common newt is unparalleled. Drop him in a pond of newts and his behaviour will be exemplary, but introduce him to a girl and watch him turn pink, yammer, and suddenly stampede for great open spaces. Even with Madeline Bassett, who feels that the stars are God's daisy chain, his tongue is tied in reef-knots. And his chum Tuppy Glossop isn't getting on much better with Madeline's delectable friend Angela. With so many broken hearts lying about him, Bertie Wooster can't...