Knights of the Open Palm
Title | Knights of the Open Palm PDF eBook |
Author | Carroll John Daly |
Publisher | Steeger Properties, LLC |
Pages | 87 |
Release | 2017-11-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 8827516301 |
The first hard-boiled detective Race Williams, runs up against the Klan in his premiere adventure, which leads him to fast and tragic action. Plus two other early Daly hard-boiled classics: "The False Burton Combs" and "Dolly." Story #1 in the Race Williams series. Carroll John Daly (1889–1958) was the creator of the first hard-boiled private eye story, predating Dashiell Hammett's first Continental Op story by several months. Daly's classic character, Race Williams, was one of the most popular fiction characters of the pulps, and the direct inspiration for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
Asia
Title | Asia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1078 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Asia |
ISBN |
The Eye of Scales
Title | The Eye of Scales PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy Hickman |
Publisher | Tor Books |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2022-07-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466886811 |
Fantasy great Tracy Hickman teams up with the video game legend Richard Garriott in this epic novel The Eye of Scales, based on the award-winning game, Shroud of the Avatar. The sword rules all. Aren Bendis, former soldier in the Obsidian army, has managed to protect a rebel city from his former friends and now finds his fate bound to a weapon once wielded by the Avatars themselves. Now, he is being secreted away to the capital of the last alliance of free nations with the hopes that the Hero of Opalis will lead their army against his former masters. What Aren doesn't know is that his former friend Evard Dirae, a Craft Master of the Obsidian Order, is seeking Aren out. Worried that Aren is being manipulated against his will by the magic of the Avatars, Evard seeks to find the sword and break its hold over Aren once and for all. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Gumshoe America
Title | Gumshoe America PDF eBook |
Author | Sean McCann |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 2000-12-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0822380560 |
In Gumshoe America Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, he contends that mid-twentieth-century American crime writers used the genre to confront and wrestle with many of the paradoxes and disappointments of New Deal liberalism. For these authors, the same contradictions inherent in liberal democracy were present within the changing literary marketplace of the mid-twentieth-century United States: the competing claims of the elite versus the popular, the demands of market capitalism versus conceptions of quality, and the individual versus a homogenized society. Gumshoe America traces the way those problems surfaced in hard-boiled crime fiction from the1920s through the 1960s. Beginning by using a forum on the KKK in the pulp magazine Black Mask to describe both the economic and political culture of pulp fiction in the early twenties, McCann locates the origins of the hard-boiled crime story in the genre’s conflict with the racist antiliberalism prominent at the time. Turning his focus to Dashiell Hammett’s career, McCann shows how Hammett’s writings in the late 1920s and early 1930s moved detective fiction away from its founding fables of social compact to the cultural alienation triggered by a burgeoning administrative state. He then examines how Raymond Chandler’s fiction, unlike Hammett’s, idealized sentimental fraternity, echoing the communitarian appeals of the late New Deal. Two of the first crime writers to publish original fiction in paperback—Jim Thompson and Charles Willeford—are examined next in juxtaposition to the popularity enjoyed by their contemporaries Mickey Spillane and Ross Macdonald. The stories of the former two, claims McCann, portray the decline of the New Deal and the emergence of the rights-based liberalism of the postwar years and reveal new attitudes toward government: individual alienation, frustration with bureaucratic institutions, and dissatisfaction with the growing vision of America as a meritocracy. Before concluding, McCann turns to the work of Chester Himes, who, in producing revolutionary hard-boiled novels, used the genre to explore the changing political significance of race that accompanied the rise of the Civil Rights movement in the late 1950s and the 1960s. Combining a striking reinterpretation of the hard-boiled crime story with a fresh view of the political complications and cultural legacies of the New Deal, Gumshoe America will interest students and fans of the genre, and scholars of American history, culture, and government.
Hawk Knight
Title | Hawk Knight PDF eBook |
Author | Nacaveva |
Publisher | Palibrio |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2011-07-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1463303947 |
Hawk Knight takes place in the mayan land, shortly after the olmecas, the toltecas and the teotihuacanos had vanished, destroyed by the Akabil, messenger from the Nine Dark Lords that want the world disappearing the humanity, trying to run over the Knights of Kukulkn, Order founded by the very god to teach in the city-school of Chichn Itz, where the Knights train their chosen apprentices to create new Knights. Now a new apprentice had arrived along a new ascention of the Akabil, a Knight apostatize the Order and his Master looks for eliminate him, the young Florid Field has decisions to take and his Master tries to fi nd out the new champion of the order.
The Truman Gumshoes
Title | The Truman Gumshoes PDF eBook |
Author | J.K. Van Dover |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2022-01-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476688028 |
The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new directions. This book examines the work of the four most important writers of this second generation of hard-boiled fiction. It offers the first substantial literary analysis of the Max Thursday novels of Wade Miller and the Carney Wilde novels of Bart Spicer, and it develops new perspectives on the well-known Mike Hammer novels of Mickey Spillane and the Lew Archer novels of Ross Macdonald. A particular focus is upon the theme of the detective's status as a loner who succeeds in discovering truth and achieving justice because he works outside organized social structures.
Domes of Fire
Title | Domes of Fire PDF eBook |
Author | David Eddings |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 1993-05-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345383273 |
The beloved Sparhawk undertakes a perilous new quest in the Tamuli series from New York Times bestselling author David Eddings. Danger stalked Queen Ehlana’s realm. It began with peasants whispering that the bloody heroes of old would rise again. Soon outlaw bands were ravaging the hill country, while the Trolls disappeared from their icy northern haunts—and none could say where they had gone. Then came an ambassador from the far-off Tamul empire, begging aid. Monsters, ancient warriors, and foul magics were tearing their empire apart. Sparhawk, Ehlana’s champion and Prince Consort, was the Emperor’s last hope, for surely the knight who had killed the evil God Azash could prevail against the terror in Tamuli. Thus did Sparhawk and his Queen begin the perilous trek to the far-distant empire of the east. With them journeyed a handful of trusted companions: the stalwart champions of the four Militant Orders, the knight Berit, Mirtai the giantess, Princess Danae, and the young thief Talen. At the journey’s end waited a glittering court seething with corruption, treachery—and the greatest danger Sparhawk would ever face!