|
|
Showing 1 - 25 of
94 matches in All Departments
|
Seeta - Vol. 3
Meadows Taylor
|
R1,845
Discovery Miles 18 450
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Tara (Hardcover)
Meadows Taylor
|
R2,508
Discovery Miles 25 080
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his
ceremonies, and his acts' Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or
Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten
classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most
influential novel of early nineteenth-century British India. This
was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to
the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who
strangled their victims and who have ever since been a stable of
Western popular culture. Writing in the voice of a captured Thug,
Taylor presents an Orientalist fantasy that is part picaresque
adventure and part colonial exposé. Confessions of a Thug offers a
unique glimpse of the colonial world in the making, revealing how
the British imagined themselves to be omniscient and in complete
control of their Indian subjects. This unique critical edition
makes available a fascinating and significant work of Empire
writing, in addition to excerpts from the original colonial texts
that inspired Taylor's narrative.
|
Seeta - Vol. 3
Meadows Taylor
|
R1,391
Discovery Miles 13 910
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
You may like...
The New Kingdom
Wilbur Smith, Mark Chadbourn
Hardcover
 (1)
R317
Discovery Miles 3 170
Hellburner
Mike Maden
Paperback
R370
R342
Discovery Miles 3 420
Mimic
Daniel Cole
Paperback
R355
R194
Discovery Miles 1 940
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
![The Story of My Life, by M. Taylor. Ed. by His Daughter [A.M. Taylor] (Hardcover): Philip Meadows Taylor](http://media.loot.co.za/images/x80/5697637628109179215.jpg)
![The Story of My Life, by M. Taylor. Ed. by His Daughter [A.M. Taylor] (Paperback): Philip Meadows Taylor](http://media.loot.co.za/images/x80/6797149173373179215.jpg)
