Audacious Scoundrels

Audacious Scoundrels
Title Audacious Scoundrels PDF eBook
Author Steven L. Piott
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 223
Release 2021-05-01
Genre History
ISBN 1493058657

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During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century a growing number of ordinary citizens had the feeling that all was not as it should be. Men who were making money made prodigious amounts, but this new wealth somehow passed over the heads of the common people. As this new breed of journalists began to examine their subjects with scrutiny, they soon discovered that those individuals were essentially “simple men of extraordinary boldness.” And it was easy to understand how they were able to accomplish their sinister purposes: “at first abruptly and bluntly, by asking and giving no quarter, and later with the same old determination and ruthlessness but with educated satellites who were glad to explain and idealize their behavior.”[i] “Nothing is lost save honor,” said one infamous buccaneer, and that was an attitude that governed the amoral principles and extralegal actions of many audacious scoundrels. Relying on secondary sources, magazine and newspaper articles, and personal accounts from those involved, this volume captures some of the sensational true stories that took place in the western United States during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. The theme that runs through each of the stories is the general contempt for the law that seemed to pervade the culture at the time and the consuming desire to acquire wealth at any cost—what Geoffrey C. Ward has called “the disposition to be rich.” End Notes Introduction [i]Louis Filler, Crusaders for American Liberalism (Yellow Springs, OH: Antioch Press, 1964), 14.

The Rambler

The Rambler
Title The Rambler PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 530
Release 1855
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Memoirs of a Magdalen, etc

Memoirs of a Magdalen, etc
Title Memoirs of a Magdalen, etc PDF eBook
Author Hugh Kelly
Publisher
Pages 196
Release 1795
Genre
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The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Title The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime PDF eBook
Author Michael Sims
Publisher Penguin
Pages 273
Release 2009-03-31
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1101029129

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An exclusive collection—the first-ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era, including Arsène Lupin, the inspiration for the new Netflix series Lupin, starring Omar Sy collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present-Arsène Lupin and A. J. Raffles, Colonel Clay and Simon Carne, Romney Pringle, Get Rich Quick Wallingford, and the Infallible Godahl-burgling London and Paris, conning New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank. Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and William Hope Hodgson.

New Tales of the Vampires

New Tales of the Vampires
Title New Tales of the Vampires PDF eBook
Author Anne Rice
Publisher Ballantine Books
Pages 658
Release 2004-09-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0345476867

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In Pandora, fledgling vampire David Talbot chronicles the history of Pandora, a two-thousand-year-old vampire, and in fifteenth-century Renaissance Florence, Vittorio finds his world shattered when his entire family is destroyed in an act of unholy violence and embarks on a desperate quest for revenge, in Vittorio, the Vampire, in an omnibus edition.

In the Queen's Service

In the Queen's Service
Title In the Queen's Service PDF eBook
Author Dick Donovan
Publisher
Pages 328
Release 1907
Genre
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Asylum Christi

Asylum Christi
Title Asylum Christi PDF eBook
Author Edward Gilliat
Publisher
Pages 336
Release 1877
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