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The Beetle (Paperback)
Richard Marsh
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R418
R346
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"A face looked into mine, and, in front of me, were those dreadful
eyes. Then, whether I was dead or living, I said to myself that
this could be nothing human,-nothing fashioned in God's image could
wear such a shape as that. Fingers were pressed into my cheeks,
they were thrust into my mouth, they touched my staring eyes, shut
my eyelids, then opened them again, and-horror of horrors!-the
blubber lips were pressed to mine-the soul of something evil
entered into me in the guise of a kiss."
"A face looked into mine, and, in front of me, were those dreadful
eyes. Then, whether I was dead or living, I said to myself that
this could be nothing human, -nothing fashioned in God's image
could wear such a shape as that. Fingers were pressed into my
cheeks, they were thrust into my mouth, they touched my staring
eyes, shut my eyelids, then opened them again, and-horror of
horrors -the blubber lips were pressed to mine-the soul of
something evil entered into me in the guise of a kiss."
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The Beetle (Hardcover)
Richard Marsh; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R479
Discovery Miles 4 790
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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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R304
Discovery Miles 3 040
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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.
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.
There were several notable women detectives in 19th century popular
literature, such as Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly and George R. Sims'
Dorcas Dene, but Richard Marsh's Judith Lee is unique and amongst
the best. Her stories are forgotten classics of mystery fiction.
Like his illustrious model, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Marsh
relied on strongly-plotted yarns and a memorable hero: a
lip-reading young woman with the busybody nature of a Miss Marple
and the jujitsu knowledge of a Sherlock Holmes, facing a variety of
dastardly devils, damsels in distress, cads and shady sportsmen.
The Judith Lee stories were published to great acclaim in The
Strand Magazine starting in 1911 and were first collected in book
form in 1912. Their creator, Richard Marsh (1857-1915), was a
British author best remembered for his 1897 supernatural thriller
The Beetle. He was still writing Judith Lee stories when he passed
away, and his widow issued a final collection in 1916. This omnibus
volume includes both collections, as well as a never reprinted
story from 1916.
"In my time I have seen men who have come to their death by
violence, but I have never seen such an extraordinary sight as he
presented. It was as if some savage thing, fastening upon him, had
torn him to pieces with tooth and nail. His flesh had been ripped
and rent so that not one recognisable feature was left. Indeed, it
might not have been a man we were looking upon, but some thing of
horror."
After a night of intemperate drinking and gambling with his
neighbour Edwin Lawrence, John Ferguson awakens in a cold sweat
from a horrible nightmare in which he seemed to see Lawrence being
torn to shreds by some vicious beast. But what is Ferguson's horror
when he wakes to find that a beautiful woman, covered in blood and
with no memory, has climbed through his window and that his vision
of Lawrence's death is all too true
Who is the killer? The list of suspects is long: Ferguson, the
lovely amnesiac, the dead man's dissolute brother. Or maybe the
truth is more terrible still: Was Lawrence slain by the
supernatural creature of Ferguson's dream - a bloodthirsty demon
capable of the most savage of murders?
One of eight novels published by the prolific Marsh at the
height of his popularity in 1900, "The Goddess: A Demon" retains
its ability to thrill and terrify. This new edition, the first in
over 75 years, features the unabridged text of the first edition
and includes a new introduction and notes by Minna Vuohelainen as
well as a wealth of contextual appendices and a reproduction of the
original cover.
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The Beetle (Paperback)
Richard Marsh
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R257
R212
Discovery Miles 2 120
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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.
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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In Full Cry
Richard Marsh
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R708
Discovery Miles 7 080
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A Duel
Richard Marsh
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R1,059
Discovery Miles 10 590
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