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First published in 1922. Fletcher was a British journalist and author of around 200 fiction and non-fiction works. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction during the genres "golden age."
Newspaper columns by a rope-twirling cowboy from Oklahoma who became the most quoted man in America - on Congress, on prohibition, on the news, on the people who make it. Rogers wrote as he talked, refused to punctuate properly, and was read by more people than any editorial writer of his day. This edition is bound with 57 plates of paintings from 1895 to 1920, among them works by Edvard Munch, Charles Dana Gibson and George Bellows.Ver libro
After lunch at a hotel in Plymouth, Maxwell Cheyne, a young and well-off country gentleman, is approached by a gentleman with a proposition. The meeting, however, is cut short after Cheyne passes out. On waking, he finds not only his pockets rifled but a message alerting him that his house has been burgled. The strange thing is that nothing of his seems to be missing; no jewelry or valuables have been taken, and all of his papers remain in place. The private detective hired to investigate is also stumped. It's only when another attempt is made by the perpetrators that a trail is established—a trail that leads Cheyne to eventually seek the help of Scotland Yard and Inspector French . This novel once again pits Inspector French against the perpetrators of an underhanded plot that stretches out from England and into mainland Europe. Despite not arriving until the second half of the book, French quickly gets a grasp of the situation and starts reeling in the guilty through methodical analysis of the available evidence. Freeman Wills Crofts (died 1957) was an influential writer of the modernist period. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, The Cheyne Mystery exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.Ver libro
In the late 19th Century, a literary movement arose across both prose and poetry, that championed the idea that art should exist for its aesthetic value, unburdened by moral or social obligations. As a consequence, it challenged the strict moral codes of the Victorian era, often exploring themes associated with eroticism, forbidden desires, artificiality, the ravages of time, beauty, death, and decay which were often perceived as transgressive, even taboo. Within its ranks are a who’s-who of unconventional and confrontational talent as well as perhaps its greatest exponent; Oscar Wilde, whose embracing of moral rebelliousness and unmasking of Victorian hypocrisy sums up the movement’s greatest achievement.Ver libro
Hallblithe's betrothed is carried off by sea-raiders, and he follows her to the Glittering Plain — a land where nobody dies, nobody ages, and nobody is permitted to leave. Morris designed the wallpapers still in production today and printed this at his own Kelmscott Press in 1891, the first book he made there; the immortality on offer is the thing the hero has to refuse. Fifty-one plates of northern seas and heather hills by painters including Bruno Liljefors and Anna Ancher carry the same salt air and rocky coasts that Hallblithe sails.Ver libro
Dumas went to Varennes in 1856 to find men who had seen the king's carriage stopped, and came back with this: the Revolution told from below by René Besson, a boy of the town who grows up into it. The Bastille, the flight of Louis, the Terror and the fall of Robespierre, all at eye level and from inside the crowd rather than above it. The narrator is invented; the old men Dumas sat with at Varennes were not, and the book is angrier than his usual manner. Fifty-seven plates, among them Daumier and Chardin, carry the century's own view of its people from the fêtes galantes of Watteau's age to the hardships of war.Ver libro
Sandy Arbuthnot's friend John Blenkiron discovers that a charismatic industrial tycoon is plotting to rule the world from his base in the small South American country of Olifa. Sandy decides to lead a revolution to scuttle the plot and allow the Olifans to decide their own fate.Ver libro
