Описание: Rediscover the golden age of the Western with this collection of four unforgettable novels of honor, adventure, and violence set against the magnificent landscapes of the American frontier The heroic exploits and violent struggles of the Old West come alive once more through this one-of-a-kind collection of four thrilling novels. Edited by Ron Hansen, this deluxe hardcover edition shows that the 1940s and 1950s was a golden age for the Western novel. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ox-Bow Incident, Walter van Tilburg Clark explores the thin line between civilization and barbarism through the story of a lynch mob that targets three innocent men, exposing a dark authoritarian impulse at work the American frontier. Set in Wyoming in 1889, a time when ranchers and cattle companies waged war with each other, Jack Schaefer's iconic Shane deploys many of the genre's most essential elements, brilliantly filtered through a boy's perceptions. Alan Le May's The Searchers, the basis for John Ford's cinematic masterpiece starring John Wayne, follows the dogged quest of two men to rescue a young girl taken prisoner by Comanche warriors. And Oakley Hall's Warlock, a novel that anticipates the later books of Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry, casts the battle for control of a southwestern outpost as a bloody saga pitting a marauding gang of cowboys and rustlers against the town's defenders, led by the legendary gunslinger Clay Blaisedell. All four novels were memorably adapted for the screen, and their gripping stories--told with brisk narrative energy, psychological depth, and laconic humor--have contributed unforgettably to the Western's enduring legacy in American culture.
Автор: Clark Duncan Название: Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built ISBN: 0062413414 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062413413 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1775.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man who rose from humble beginnings and started his career as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into the second largest Internet company in the world.
Автор: Clark Jack Название: Nobodys Angel ISBN: 0857683500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857683502 Издательство: Titan books ltd. Рейтинг: Цена: 1084.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: TWO KILLERS STALK THE STREETS OF CHICAGO - CAN ONE TAXI DRIVER CORNER THEM BOTH? Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed: a Windy City hack who knows every street and back alley of his beloved city and takes its recent descent into violence personally. But what can one driver do about a killer targeting streetwalkers or another terrorizing cabbies? Precious little - until the night he witnesses one of them in action...
Автор: Clark Ryan B., Carter Jack Clint Название: Ghost Songs ISBN: 0578556812 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578556819 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2062.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Ghost Songs is a book of 16 original stories that have inspired by the music of local musicians. A line, or an image, would strike me, and I would think, "Yes, but Twilight Zone... or X-Files". And Ghost Songs was born. The stories are woven together with small bits of current events and news. For instance, it really is possible to get your cremated ashes placed in a vinyl record, and the Hacienda Rape Victim, really gave birth to a baby nobody knew about. And children really are in cages. The stories are loosely interconnected, and return you to the same Netherworld, the same afterlife, as was first described in Spirits of Jerome: my first book of Specualtive stories.
Автор: Batterson Mark, Clark Joel N. Название: Jack Staples and the Poet`s Storm ISBN: 0830775978 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780830775972 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the epic conclusion to the Jack Staples trilogy, Jack and Alexia are forced to make an impossible choice, one that will both destroy and save the world.
Our world is more fantastical than we dare imagine ... filled with both unbelievable beauty and horrific evil. Just ask Jack Staples and Alexia Dreager. They're at the epicenter of the conflict that's been raging since time before time began. Their birth and destiny have long been prophesied--but things aren't going as planned.
In this epic conclusion to the Jack Staples trilogy, Jack and Alexia must make an impossible choice during their final battle against the Assassin--one that could alter time itself and the fate of the world.
Автор: Caroline Blyth, Alison Jack Название: The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama: Murderous Texts ISBN: 0567695530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780567695536 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 5226.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have explicitly drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth. The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama brings together a multi-disciplinary scholarship from the fields of biblical interpretation, literary criticism, criminology, and studies in film and television to discuss international texts and media spanning the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The volume concludes with an afterword by crime writer and academic, Liam McIvanney.
These essays explore both explicit and implicit engagements between biblical texts and crime narratives, analysing the multiple layers of meaning that such engagements can produce - cross-referencing Sherlock Holmes with the murder mystery in the Book of Tobit, observing biblical violence through the eyes of Christian fundamentalists in Henning Mankell's Before the Frost, catching the thread of homily in the serial murders of Se7en, or analysing biblical sexual violence in light of television crime procedurals. The contributors also raise intriguing questions about the significance of the Bible as a religious and cultural text - its association with the culturally pervasive themes of violence, (im)morality, and redemption, and its relevance as a symbol of the (often fraught) location that religion occupies within contemporary secular culture.
We all know about Jack the Ripper, the serial murderer who terrorized Whitechapel and confounded police in 1888, but how much do we really know about his victims?
Pursued by one demon into the clutches of another, the ordinary life of Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols is made extraordinary by horrible, inhuman circumstance. Jack the Ripper's first victim comes to life in this sensitive and intimate fictionalized portrait, from humble beginnings, to building a family with an abusive husband, her escape into poverty and the workhouse, alcoholism, and finally abandoned on the streets of London where the Whitechapel Murderer found her.
With A Brutal Chill in August, Alan M. Clark gives readers an uncompromising and terrifying look at the nearly forgotten human story behind one of the most sensational crimes in history. This is horror that happened.
Автор: Clark, Alan M Название: Say anything but your prayers ISBN: 0998846600 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998846606 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2062.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
A novel that beats back our assumptions about the time of Jack the Ripper. Not the grim story of an unfortunate drunken prostitute killed before her time, but one of a young woman alive with all the emotional complexity of women today. Running from a man wanting her to pay for her crimes against his brother, Mary Jane Kelly must recover a valuable hidden necklace and sell it to gain the funds to leave London and start over elsewhere. Driven by powerful, if at times conflicting emotion, she runs the dystopian labyrinth of the East End, and tries to sneak past the deadly menace that bars her exit.
Автор: Batterson Mark, Clark Joel N. Название: Jack Staples and the City of Shadows ISBN: 083077596X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780830775965 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: After a near-death experience, eleven-year-old Jack awakens to a world where war has been raging since time before time. Battling fantastical creatures, Jack must face his fears if he is to fulfill his destiny. But is his destiny to save the world ... or destroy it?
The Assassin is closing in. Just as Jack and his friend Alexia discover what it means to be the Chosen Ones, they each face the test of a lifetime. For Jack it is a question of trust; for Alexia, of loyalty. Everything rests on their making the right choices, and on the completion of their missions. The Assassin expects they will fail, and that they will either join him or be destroyed. It will take all of the Author's forces, the special gifts Jack and Alexia each have, and the help of their friends, Arthur and Mrs. Dumphrey, to overcome. But when the enemy makes a key move, and an important quest proves difficult, the prophecy--that they will both destroy and save the world--seems further from coming true than ever before.
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