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Two hopeful, hapless romantics get drunk, get it on, and then get
the hell away from each other. In her eyes, he's a mistake. A
mistake who keeps turning up at parties. In his eyes, she's
perfect. He's short-sighted. This achingly funny, romantic
catastrophe fuses poetry and prose to ask if a one-night stand last
a lifetime. A very human tale of good intentions and bad timing.
Winner of 2012 Fringe First (for innovation and outstanding new
writing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Dirty Great Love Story
is a tale of the chance of love in a one-night stand. This second
edition was published to coincide with the 2017 revival of the play
and contains some changes to the original script.
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The Beetle (Paperback)
Richard Marsh
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R257
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'I saw him taking a different shape before my eyes. His loose
draperies all fell off him, and, as they were in the very act of
falling, there issued ... a monstrous creature of the beetle type'
Eminent politician Paul Lessingham is the toast of Westminster, but
when 'the Beetle' arrives from Egypt to hunt him down, the dark and
gruesome secret that haunts him is dragged into the light. Bent on
revenge for a crime committed against the disciples of an Egyptian
goddess, the Beetle terrorizes its victims and will stop at nothing
until it has satisfaction. The Penguin English Library -
collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in
English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World
War.
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The Beetle (Hardcover)
Richard Marsh; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R663
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The Beetle (1897) is a novel by Richard Marsh. Immensely popular
upon publication, The Beetle was an instant bestseller and went on
to inspire a 1919 silent film adaptation starring Maudie Dunham.
Despite its success, the novel was largely forgotten until
scholarly attention in the late-20th century highlighted its
importance to the fields of gothic fiction, postcolonial criticism,
and women and gender studies. "To have tramped about all day
looking for work; to have begged even for a job which would give me
money enough to buy a little food; and to have tramped and to have
begged in vain,-that was bad. But, sick at heart, depressed in mind
and in body, exhausted by hunger and fatigue, to have been
compelled to pocket any little pride I might have left, [...] and
to solicit it in vain!-that was worse. Much worse." Down on his
luck, Robert Holt wanders the streets of London in search of food,
a job, and shelter. Turned away from a Fulham workhouse, he finds
himself standing before a seemingly abandoned house and, with
nowhere to go, cautiously enters. There, he comes face to face with
the mysterious Beetle, a figure from ancient Egypt who controls his
subjects with mesmerism. Soon, Robert is used to commit a series of
crimes against Paul Lessingham, a powerful member of the House of
Commons. As the plot unfolds, a love triangle involving Lessingham,
the beautiful Marjorie Lindon, and a vindictive chemist named
Sydney Atherton falls victim to the scheming Beetle. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Richard Marsh's The Beetle is a classic work of
British horror fiction reimagined for modern readers.
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The Beetle (Paperback)
Richard Marsh; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R427
R361
Discovery Miles 3 610
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The Beetle (1897) is a novel by Richard Marsh. Immensely popular
upon publication, The Beetle was an instant bestseller and went on
to inspire a 1919 silent film adaptation starring Maudie Dunham.
Despite its success, the novel was largely forgotten until
scholarly attention in the late-20th century highlighted its
importance to the fields of gothic fiction, postcolonial criticism,
and women and gender studies. "To have tramped about all day
looking for work; to have begged even for a job which would give me
money enough to buy a little food; and to have tramped and to have
begged in vain,-that was bad. But, sick at heart, depressed in mind
and in body, exhausted by hunger and fatigue, to have been
compelled to pocket any little pride I might have left, [...] and
to solicit it in vain!-that was worse. Much worse." Down on his
luck, Robert Holt wanders the streets of London in search of food,
a job, and shelter. Turned away from a Fulham workhouse, he finds
himself standing before a seemingly abandoned house and, with
nowhere to go, cautiously enters. There, he comes face to face with
the mysterious Beetle, a figure from ancient Egypt who controls his
subjects with mesmerism. Soon, Robert is used to commit a series of
crimes against Paul Lessingham, a powerful member of the House of
Commons. As the plot unfolds, a love triangle involving Lessingham,
the beautiful Marjorie Lindon, and a vindictive chemist named
Sydney Atherton falls victim to the scheming Beetle. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Richard Marsh's The Beetle is a classic work of
British horror fiction reimagined for modern readers.
The Beetle (1897) tells the story of a fantastical creature, "born
of neither god nor man," with supernatural and hypnotic powers, who
stalks British politician Paul Lessingham through fin de siecle
London in search of vengeance for the defilement of a sacred tomb
in Egypt. In imitation of various popular fiction genres of the
late nineteenth century, Marsh unfolds a tale of terror, late
imperial fears, and the "return of the repressed," through which
the crisis of late imperial Englishness is revealed. This Broadview
edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of
historical documents that situate the novel within the contexts of
fin de siecle London, England's interest and involvement in Egypt,
the emergence of the New Woman, and contemporary theories of
mesmerism and animal magnetism.
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The Beetle (Paperback, Reprint)
Eric J. Guignard, Leslie S. Klinger; Richard Marsh
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R445
R381
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"A fun new way to encounter the spine-tinglers of yesteryear."
-Booklist A horror classic for the modern reader, presented by the
Horror Writers Association. Rediscover the classic and come
face-to-face with a creature "born of neither god nor man" First
published in 1897, Richard Marsh's classic work of gothic horror,
The Beetle, opens with Robert Holt, an out-of-work clerk seeking
shelter in an abandoned house. He comes face to face with a
fantastical creature with supernatural and hypnotic powers; a
creature who can transform at will between its human and beetle
forms and who wrecks havoc when he preys on young middle-class
Britons. Featuring an introduction by bestselling author Chelsea
Quinn Yarbro, the Haunted Library Horror Classics edition of The
Beetle is a tale of revenge that takes the reader on a dark
journey, one that explores the crisis of late imperial England
through a fantastical and horrific lens.
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A Duel
Richard Marsh
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In Full Cry
Richard Marsh
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