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A brand new Agatha Christie omnibus, bringing together all four stand-alone novels she wrote in the 1920s âe" The Secret Adversary, The Man in the Brown Suit, The Secret of Chimneys and its sequel The Seven Dials Mystery. Agatha Christieâe(tm)s imaginative crime novels and thrillers made her a household name from the 1920s right through to her final books in the early 1970s. Best known as the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, her prolific output would bring her publisher William Collins at least one book every year. Twenty of her contemporary crime novels were to feature neither Poirot or Marple, instead a wide range of ingenious plots would be played out by a selection of amateur sleuths, professional detectives, young adventuresses or unwary bystanders caught up in unforeseen events. This collection of five omnibuses gathers together the twenty stand-alone novels, presenting them chronologically and providing a fascinating window on a changing world though six decades of investigation. Presented in this way, recurring characters âe" including Superintendent Battle, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Colonel Johnny Race and Ariadne Oliver âe" rub shoulders with many who would appear only in one book, and the result is a selection of some of the finest mystery writing ever. Here is the answer to the question of what Agatha Christie might have been had she not invented Poirot or Marple âe" and the answer undoubtedly is still The Queen of Crime!
This is the first of an anticipated multi-volume collection of short story anthologies with a focus on the classic monsters. Monsters have always been popular and are more popular today than they ever have been. The goal of the series is to collect all the classic stories, along with minor gems that have never been published before, and place them in one central location. The series begins with the monster - The Mummy! Three events helped popularize interest in Egypt and the Mummy as a monster. First, Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign into Ottoman Egypt from 1798 - 1801. The expedition led to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the creation of the field of Egyptology in Europe. This ultimately ended in the establishment of the Egyptian Institute and the publication of the Description de l'Égypte from 1809 - 1821. Second, the building of the Suez Canal, an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, constructed between 1859 and 1869. And third, the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun (ruler of Egypt from 1332 - 1323 B.C.), by Howard Carter in 1922. It sparked a renewed public interest in ancient Egypt, for which Tutankhamun's mask, now in the Egyptian Museum, remains one of the most popular symbols. These events helped popularize interest in Egypt in the West and in the Mummy monster. This is the student "Abridged Edition" of the complete Mummy Omnibus collection - the top 25 stories from that collection are included in this abridgement. This edition contains the following stories: Gautier: "The Mummy's Foot" Alcott: "Lost in a Pyramid" Poe: "Some Words with a Mummy" Doyle: "Ring of Thoth" and "Lot 249" Schoolcraft: "Death's Secret" Howard: "The Nose-less Horror" Lovecraft: "The Outsider" Smith: "The Abominations of Yondo" Carr: "Spider-Bite" Blackwood: "The Nemesis of Fire" And many others . . . The Monster Omnibus Editions will be published as a series of collected works of specific writers, anthologies of monster themes, and individual novels. The goal of the series is to add to the canon of classic monster fiction. See the inside cover of this book for a complete listing of editions published thus far.
When Agatha Christie died in 1976, she was the bestselling mystery writer in history. This collection of new essays brings fresh perspectives to Christie scholarship with new readings and discussions of little-known aspects of her life, career and legacy. The contributors explore her relationship with modernism, the relevance of queer theory, television adaptations, issues with translations, information behavior theory, feminist readings, postcolonial tribute novels, celebrity culture and heritage cinema. The final word is given to fans in an editorial that collates testimonies from readers, collectors and enthusiasts.
There has been a recent revival of interest in the Mummy as a monster and this collection will be a welcomed addition to some of the great mummy short story anthologies published in the last thirty years. Here is a taste of what can be found inside . . . "Trooping up out of the foul subterranean darkness of the great square drainage hole at the bottom of the pit, came countless thousands of great white spiders! In an undulating tide of furry evilness they crept up from the lower chamber that had been their prison and from which the water had just driven them. The professor, too, saw the advancing horde of horror, and the two men's eyes met in unutterable terror." Carr, Spider-Bite. "For five minutes . . . we stood waiting, looking from each other's faces to the mummy, and from the mummy to the hole, and all the time the shuffling sound, soft and stealthy, came gradually nearer. The tension, for me at least, was very near the breaking point when at last the cause of the disturbance reached the edge. . . . The next second, uttering a cry of curious quality, it came into view. And it was far more distressingly horrible than anything I had anticipated. For the sight of some Egyptian monster, some god of the tombs, or even of some demon of fire, I think I was already half prepared; but when, instead, I saw the white visage of Miss Wragge framed in that round opening of sand, followed by her body crawling on all-fours, her eyes bulging and reflecting the yellow glare of the candles, my first instinct was to turn and run like a frantic animal seeking a way of escape." Blackwood, The Nemesis of Fire. "And now a fearful spectacle met his horrified gaze. The immense marble scarab�us on the floor of the gallery vibrated with incipient animation; then it stretched forth its huge feelers and opened its massy wings, like a newly born insect trying the properties of its novel limbs; and next, with the heavy cumbrous motion of a tortoise, it crept across the floor, throwing back the moonbeams from its polished surface, towards the principal entrance of the gallery." O'Brien, Mr. Grubbe's Night with Memnon. And that's just the tip of the iceberg . . . Three important events helped popularize interest in the Mummy as a monster. First, Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign into Ottoman Egypt from 1798 - 1801. The expedition led to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the creation of the field of Egyptology in Europe. This ultimately ended in the establishment of the Egyptian Institute and the publication of the Description de I'�gypte from 1809 - 1821. Second, the building of the Suez Canal, an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, constructed between 1859 and 1869. And third, the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun (ruler of Egypt from 1332 - 1323 B.C.), by Howard Carter in 1922. It sparked a renewed public interest in ancient Egypt, for which Tutankhamun's mask, now in the Egyptian Museum, remains one of the most popular symbols. These events helped popularize interest in Egypt in the West. All the classic mummy stories have been included in this anthology (e.g., Gautier, Alcott, Poe, Doyle, Rohmer, Blackwood, Haggard, Smith, Quinn, and Lovecraft). However, the larger goal of the anthology is to broaden the canon by including minor and important works which have never been anthologized or published since their original publication. Stories like, "Death's Secret," "Mr. Grubbe's Night with Memnon," and "The Wrath of Aman-Ra," for example, are rare gems. Brian J. Frost referred to "Death's Secret" as one of the best and underrated mummy stories of all time. The meaning of "mummy stories" in this collection has been interpreted in the widest possible way, to include short stories, novelettes, and novellas. This will be the most inclusive collection of classic mummy stories ever published, containing almost fifty stories.
Bobs, beards, blondes and beyond, Hair takes us on a lavishly illustrated journey into the world of this remarkable substance and our complicated and fascinating relationship with it. Taking the key things we do to it in turn, this book captures its importance in the past and into the present: to individuals and society, for health and hygiene, in social and political challenge, in creating ideals of masculinity and womanliness, in being a vehicle for gossip, secrets and sex. Using art, film, personal diaries, newspapers, texts and images, Susan J. Vincent unearths the stories we have told about hair and why they are important. From ginger jibes in the seventeenth century to bobbed-hair suicides in the 1920s, from hippies to Roundheads, from bearded women to smooth metrosexuals, Hair shows the significance of the stuff we nurture, remove, style and tend. You will never take it for granted again.
This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The Armistice brought hopes for a better future, as well as sadness, disappointment and rage. Many people in all the combatant nations asked hard questions about the purpose of the war. These questions are explored in complex and nuanced ways in the literature, music and art of the period. This book revisits the silence of the Armistice and asks how its effect was to echo into the following decades. The essays are genuinely interdisciplinary and are written in a clear, accessible style.
American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930 examines the dynamic interactions between social and literary fields during the so-called Jazz Age. It situates the era's place in the incremental evolution of American literature throughout the twentieth century. Essays from preeminent critics and historians analyze many overlapping aspects of American letters in the 1920s and re-evaluate an astonishingly diverse group of authors. Expansive in scope and daring in its mixture of eclectic methods, this book extends the most exciting advances made in the last several decades in the fields of modernist studies, ethnic literatures, African-American literature, gender studies, transnational studies, and the history of the book. It examines how the world of literature intersected with other arts, such as cinema, jazz, and theater, and explores the print culture in transition, with a focus on new publishing houses, trends in advertising, readership, and obscenity laws.