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Angels in Undress
In 1936, three-time convicted burglar Henry DeGras published his account of growing up in the London underworld of prostitutes and “wide boys,” Low Company: The Evolution of a Burglar, under the pseudonym of Mark Benney. Released in the U.S. a year later under the odd title Angels in Undress, the book received wildly enthusiastic reviews, including from such notoriously tough critics as Rebecca West and George Orwell. Although his publisher Peter Davies touted Benney as “the man who committed a hundred burglaries,” Benney’s crimes had been mostly minor felonies. His last conviction was for skipping out on installment payments for a phonograph. Benney went on to write several novels about the world he’d grown up in, most notably The Big Wheel,
Reprieve: The Testament of John ReskoThe terrifying story of a man without hope, steeling himself for the final ordeal of the electric chair. John Resko sat in the Death House at Sing Sing waiting for the electric chair. Twenty minutes of life were left to him when the reprieve came. Twice more he endured this agony; twice more he was reprieved. What were his thoughts as the seconds raced him to the chair? What does if feel like to know that you are going to die?
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A Book Too Risky To Publish: Free Speech and UniversitiesAnnotation/number of pages/publisher - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/168...
ISBN1680532049 (ISBN13: 9781680532043)
The Ragman's DaughterShort story collection- the title story is about, "A young Englishman, now married, reminisces about his wild teen-age days. He stole for kicks. He met Doris, daughter of a prosperous scrap merchant, who became his partner in love and thievery. He was caught after they robbed a shoe shop one night. He spent 3 yrs. in prison. Doris was pregnant, she married a mechanic, & both were killed in an accident. After Tony came out of prison he went straight. He never acknowledged his & Doris' child but knows the boy is well cared for by his grandfather." (from The New Yorker); Inspiration for the film, The Ragman's Daughter, a 1972 British crime-drama / romantic film directed by Harold Becker starring Simon Rouse and Victoria Tennant.
Strange LandscapeThe setting of this novel is an ancient chateau located in a fog-bound region, possibly Brittany, complete with a forbidden cellar in which hang seven bodies, all victims of horrible sexual assaults. The chatelaine is a sinister doctor and her elderly husband, aided by a depraved young henchman, Marco. The inmates in this strange castle are a gang of boys ranging in age from eight to fourteen, rounded up from various city slums and peasant hovels, and purchased from their families for the price of a fishing boat or the side of a pig. The boys are well fed and clothed and allowed every freedom, but on certain afternoons and evenings they must entertain the highly respected gentlemen who have paid well for the privilege of their company.
When Jonathan DiedLike so many novels, this book is the story of a love affair. What is less usual is that Jonathan, an artist, is almost thirty when the story starts, while Serge is a boy of eight. Jonathan had got to know Serge and his mother Barbara in Paris the previous year . Tired of the city and confused by the stress of this relationship, Jonathan shut himself away in a remote village. But his retreat is disturbed when Barbara needs someone to look after Serge for the summer while she travels abroad. Like all lovers, Jonathan and Serge create their own microcosm of domestic and erotic ritual, but theirs is a world that shatters on contact with the surrounding society.
Tony Duvert was respected in France for both fiction and essays, but the uncompromising motif that pervades his work has tended to barred him from reaching English readers. GMP first published this book in English. "His cool and matter-of-fact portrayal of a sensitive theme is a welcome alternative to the hysteria surrounding the age taboo in the English-speaking countries."
Memoirs Of American Prisons: An Annotated BibliographyCover - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081...
Published 1979
Assault with a Deadly Weapon: The Autobiography of a Street CriminalThousands of pages of transcripts of taped conversation were edited to form this biography of a street hustler, stickup artist, pimp and dope fiend who fought and survived by the rules of the ghetto. The prose is inelegant but authentic; judicious editing makes this fast-paced narrative instructive without being ponderous.
Over The WallEditor Andrews has managed a difficult task: he has put together an anthology of inmate writing from around the country while in prison himself. Although most of the pieces are lackluster fiction, poetry, or short biographies, two vignettes are noteworthy: Jack Fitzpatrick’s ’’Death of the Birdman, ” an account of his conversation with Robert Stroud before his death in 1973, and Andrews’ ’’Muhammad Ali--In the
Joint!” a story of Ali’s visit to Rubin ’’Hurricane” Carter.
Death Row: An Affirmation of Life.The compiler of this book was in contact with several men on death row. He includes an excerpt from Chessman's Trial by Ordeal, and the reflections of prison officials including Clinton Duffy; Byron Eshelman, death row chaplain at San Quentin; and James Park, associate warden of San Quentin. As poets and essayists, the prisoners discuss their tense but dull lives as they await execution, and comment on the television programs that give them some hold on sanity, with death in their midst. Jack Rainsberger, aware that his efforts in court have failed, offers a meditative poem on his crime and plight. There is nothing shockingly new or exceptionally good in this collection, but it provides glimpses into the lives of people who, by virtue of society’s branding, arouse curiosity, contempt and sympathy.
I Was Condemned to the Chair: With an Introduction by Dr. George W. Kirchwey, former Warden of Sing-Sing PrisonThe remarkable and graphic autobiography of a convict who spent twenty month in the old Sing Sing death house with all its attendant horrors and then served "twenty to life" in Sing-Sing, Dannemora and Comstock prisons at a period when penology was in most interesting and evolutionary stage. Written graphically, and from the prisoner's point of view, it gives sensational reflection on our prison system as the under dog sees it and bring in the ways that prisoners circumvent the rules, how they escape, how they regard wardens, deputies, guards and prison reformers, how they live and how they suffer. It gives intimate glimpses of criminal personalities whose reputation extends from coast to coast.
"Has a quality of timeliness as well as a glow of feeling which adds greatly to its interest and value," says the famous criminologist, Dr. George W. Kirchwey, in his introduction.
The author of this unique book was born in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is now leading a useful life as a good citizen of a city which shall be nameless. He has naturally abandoned his real name of Edward F. McGrath, Sing-Sing Death House Prisoner No. 60,021; recommitted for twenty years to life, No, 61,550
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon.
This second volume of the bestselling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the Prime Minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general European conflagration, through the rapid unravelling of appeasement, and on to the tribulations of the early years of the Second World War. It closes with a moment of hope, as Channon, in recording the fall of Mussolini in July 1943, reflects: 'The war must be more than half over.'
For much of this period, Channon is genuinely an eye-witness to unfolding events. He reassures Neville Chamberlain as he fights for his political life in May 1940. He chats to Winston Churchill while the two men inspect the bombed-out chamber of the House of Commons a few months later. From his desk at the Foreign Office he charts the progress of the war. But with the departure of his boss 'Rab' Butler to the Ministry of Education, and Channon's subsequent exclusion from the corridors of power, his life changes - and with it the preoccupations and tone of the diaries. The conduct of the war remains a constant theme, but more personal preoccupations come increasingly to the fore. As he throws himself back into the pleasures of society, he records his encounters with the likes of Noël Coward, Prince Philip, General de Gaulle and Oscar Wilde's erstwhile lover Lord Alfred Douglas. He describes dinners with members of European royal dynasties, and recounts gossip and scandal about the great, the good and the less good. And he charts the implosion of his marriage and his burgeoning, passionate friendship with a young officer on Wavell's staff.
These are diaries that bring a whole epoch vividly to life.
Merely The Patient by Henry Howard Harper1st ed. has title: The story of a nephrectomy.
95 pages
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Forty Days and Forty NightsPlease update book release date to: October 5, 2021
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Behind These Walls by James R. WinningThis fictionalized account describes life at the Ohio Penitentiary, indicting it for brutality, open homosexuality, forced contract labor, and conditions which drove men insane. The central event is the great fire in which nearly 300 prisoners lost their lives, with vivid descriptions of the flaming, crashing timbers, the chaotic rescue operation, and the aftermath. Author was a leader in an effort to seize control of the prison while the warden and his staff were under attack for negligence, but after a tearful memorial service he and the other organizers were shipped to the penal farm at London. When they returned months later, the lid was on tight again in the penitentiary at Columbus.
303 pages
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Heldentod: The Nazi Culture of Deathnumber of pages/publisher - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...
B08TB632ZH
China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing WorldAnnotation/number of pages/publisher - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...
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Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America Annotation/number of pages/publisher - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...B08PL6C4RQ
Der tote Preusse : Roman e. Staatsidee
Der tote Preuße ("the dead Prussian") is an unfinished novel by the German writer Ernst von Salomon, published posthumously in 1973. It has the subtitle Roman einer Staatsidee ("novel of a state idea"). The novel was supposed to be in three volumes and explain the concept of Prussia through an epic narrative. Salomon described the project as his "chief work"; however, he only wrote the first volume, which does not go beyond medieval times, and it was published in its unedited manuscript form.[1][2] The book has a preface by Hans Lipinsky-Gottersdorf.[3]
Дневник 1939-1945Пьер Дрие ла Рошель - один из самых знаменитых французских писателей середины XX в. Войдя в литературу вместе с сюрреалистами, он, не удовлетворившись "поэтическим бунтарством", связывает свое творчество с политикой, с особенным вниманием относится к развитию социалистических идей в России и Германии. "Дневник 1939-1945" - уникальное свидетельство исканий и заблуждений выдающегося французского интеллигента, увенчанных признанием поражения и самоубийством. Во Франции "Дневник" вышел в замечательной серии "Свидетели" издательства "Галлимар". Книга, в которой французский писатель сводит счеты с собственным политическим мистицизмом, необыкновенно актуальна для просвещенного читателя России, отвергающего власть политической мифологии.
Odyssey: My Life as a Controversial Evolutionary Psychologist Annotation/number of pages/publisher - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...B08SBXCS47
Raped in Prison: A Horror Story Annotation/number of pages/publisher - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...B091BM87SV
Дневник мыслей. 1943-1957 гг.Correct title: Дневник мыслей. 1943-1957 гг. Том 1. Май 1943-январь 1946
"Дневник мыслей" классика русского авангарда Алексея Ремизова - уникальное произведение документально-художественной прозы русской эмиграции. Начатый в годы оккупации Парижа, дневник дает точную фиксацию и осмысление современных политических событий (окончание Второй мировой войны, репатриация русских эмигрантов, реакция России в изгнанье на смерть И.В.Сталина и т. п.), отражает процесс творческой работы Ремизова-писателя, содержит его воспоминания об Люхе Серебряного века и сюрреалистические сновидения. Огромен охват действующих лиц дневника: от исторических деятелей и героев произведений средневековой и новой европейских литератур до современных политических деятелей, литераторов, философов, художников русской эмиграции, СССР, Франции и других стран. Первый том содержит записи 1943-1946 гг. Текст дневника предваряется вступительной статьей, сопровождается научным комментарием и обширным аннотированным именным указателем; впервые публикуются иллюстративные материалы - рисунки Ремизова военного периода.
Published 2013 by Пушкинский Дом
ISBN: 978-5-91476-048-6
Edition Language Русский
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The Killer of the Princes in the Tower: A New Suspect Revealed Annotation/number of pages/publisher - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...
The Shame of the PrisonsWashington Post journalist had himself imprisoned for a few days and recorded his surface impressions. Most of the remainder of the book is interviews with widely - scattered corrections officials and a few prisoners, with close looks at the Federal Reformatory for Women and the Holton School. A poorly organized documentary.
'The Dark Green CircleQuite different from anything else he has written, though in tightness of plot it suggests the compactness of The Enchanted Village. Remember Joseph O'Neill's Land Under England (Simon & Schuster) -- the closest prototype, though this is easier reading, and more convincing. Discovery, from the air, of hitherto unknown Roman ruins leads to the gradual realization of the domination of a small English village by a man steeped in Roman tradition, and opposed to any social intercourse which may interfere with his rule. He is eventually blocked by a confirmed bachelor, a diverting archeologist and a disillusioned boy. Good yarn with mystery and adventure appeal.
Empire Eternal: In Defense of Imperialism Annotation/number of pages/publisher - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...B0948GJGTL
Brief Against Death: Written by Edgar Smith in His Eleventh Year on Death Row364 pages
On June 6, 1957, the author of this book was convicted of the brutal murder of a fifteen-year-old girl. For more than eleven years he has lived in the shadow of the electric chair in the Death House of the New Jersey State Prison.
Brief Against Death is Edgar Smith's firsthand account of his arrest, interrogation, trial, imprisonment, and 4,000-day battle, through fourteen appeals and thirteen stays of execution, to set aside the verdict and establish his innocence. It is the story of a man without status, with no money, with little formal education, who was connected circumstantially to a horrifying crime, interrogated without counsel by the police for nearly twenty consecutive hours, prosecuted on the basis of an unsigned statement in which he confessed to no crime whatsoever, tried in an atmosphere of inflammatory press coverage and public furor, convicted in the face of strikingly contradictory evidence-and who has found within himself the resources of mind and courage to fight his case through the labyrinthine machinery of the courts. Edgar Smith was twenty-three years old when, on the morning of March 5, 1957, the body of Victoria Zielinski of Mahwah, New Jersey, was found in a sandpit, her skull crushed by a rock, her clothes torn and disheveled in a fashion to suggest sexual assault. That same day Smith was picked up by the police. Strong circumstantial evidence linked him to the crime. But at the trial the coroner's testimony for the prosecution indicated that the time of the murder was at least two hours after Smith had arrived in another town, with his wife and baby, to spend the night with his in-laws. Incredibly, this and other glaring inconsistencies in the prosecution's case failed to save him from conviction. Once the police and the prosecutor's office had settled on Smith as the likely murderer, no legal, logical, or human considerations could halt the seemingly inexorable train of events that closed the doors of the State Prison behind him three months later. In the eleven years of solitary confinement he has undergone since then-nine of them spent in an eight-foot-square windowless cell-Edgar Smith, learning the mazes of law, fighting for his life, has managed almost miraculously to widen his horizons, to educate himself, to initiate and direct the series of legal appeals that have again and again postponed his sentence of electrocution, and to complete, on the eve of his fifteenth appeal, the handwritten manuscript of Brief Against Death. The man himself is remarkable, and he tells his story with a remarkable objectivity that intensifies the reader's response to his ordeal. His book is a unique human document-and one of utmost importance to all who are concerned with the workings of criminal justice in America.
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Meet the Criminal Class: My friends, by Ex-liferThe late Mr. Phelan having been sentenced to life imprisonment met and had a close contact with a large number of prisoners. He puts forward a view that certain prisoners, whom he describes as "wide" are in a rather romantic and somewhat confused way, the elite of the criminal classes. These are special prisoners in his mind, men upon whom the ordinary dictates of prison behaviour have no impact. They are almost always men of influence in the prison, known to each other throughout the prison system and if you are prepared to accept Mr. Phelan’s judgment of them, men who, in some way. should command respect and admiration. This view of this particular group of prisoners is difficult to accept. The book is interesting and very readable.
The Saint and the Hunchback"Sometimes it is very hard to be holy," said Odo, and it requires a great deal of one's time.
That is the opening line of The Saint and the Hunchback. This strange, beautiful and unclassifiable novel is a novel of ideas, yet one which is crowded with action. It is meditative and occasionally even profound, yet written wittily, humorously, clearly. Through the passionate intensity of its love scenes and of the bold combats and daring ventures, the central conflict between faith and skepticism, between the worlds of spirit and of matter, is never forgotten.
It opens as, one early spring morning some time during the seventh century, on an island off western Scotland, a young Irish monk named Odo throws his granite coffin into the sea. In this miraculous craft he and his one companion, an English hunchback named Aelfric, set off over the northern seas to find adventure and to convert unbelievers.
The Saint and the Hunchback's themes are eternal. How can a man believe? What can he believe? Why should he act? What part does desire play in human life? These are the questions asked and answered in the actions and personalities of Odo and Aelfric and their dealings with each other; with the violent princess Halga; the nobles in the court of the Hildings, and the eight ancient Druid priest delicately differentiated in their despair, legalism, conventionality, hatred, envy, cunning and caution. Odo, the tall blond Celt, gifted with physical strength, courage and confidence, seek restlessly for spiritual insight. Aelfric, his misshapen companion, endowed with intellect, spirit and imagination, longs to be a man of action. Yet it is the hunchback who is saintly, the saint who is spiritually crippled. And in their conflict lies the central theme of this book: that the only admirable man is the one who wants to be what he can't be.
Its nobility of theme and irrepressible gaiety, its memorable characters and its chiseled, lovely prose, make The Saint and the Hunchback a privilege to present.
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On my author profile, the wrong versions of my book are being shown. Please add the following to the list of "books by this author":https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Thank you! Jordan R. Samuel
For the book titled "On the Eighteenth of May", this should be the default page and book cover that the search goes to:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Thank you, Jordan R. Samuel (author)
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My Six Convicts: A Psychologist's Three Years in Fort LeavenworthWith an appointment by the U.S.Public Health Service to conduct research in the relationship between drug addiction and criminality in the new research hospital at Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary, I arrived as a professor of psychology and left three years later as a professor of psychology in the 1930s, but not the same, not the same at all. But this book is not a record of the research project but rather a reminiscent impression of the "humors, whimsies and tragedies of my six convict assisants--my world as they saw it and their world as I saw it".
The Lady of Zamalek: A Novel Annotation/number of pages/publisher - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...B092W9BPBY
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I need my book description changed and I'd like a headline bolded and centered before the description starts. I have a program that supposedly makes it into HTML. Should I just paste it here including the identifying information on the book? I can't quite tell where to ask for this and my publisher is clueless as well.
The Taming of the Demons: From the Epic of Gesar of Ling Annotation/number of pages/publisher - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161...ISBN 1611808960 (ISBN13: 9781611808964)
Hi! I would like to change two minor details to this edition, all due to fail punctuation and wrong use of capital letters:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
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O Essencial de Calvin e Haroldo: Uma Coletânea Especial
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Após finalizar a publicação completa das tiras de Calvin e Haroldo, a Conrad continua a publicação das antologias coloridas (que reúnem histórias de dois ou mais volumes e sempre trazem as tiras de domingo coloridas) com O Essencial de Calvin e Haroldo. O livro traz as tiras de “E Foi Assim Que Tudo Começou” e “Tem Alguma Coisa Babando Embaixo da Cama”, além de uma história inédita de 12 páginas, totalmente colorida. O prefácio é assinado por Charles M. Schulz, criador do Snoopy. O leitor irá se deleitar com momentos engraçadíssimos do garoto e seu tigre de pelúcia, além de se emocionar com momentos tocantes que refletem fases do aprendizado infantil. Um título indispensável para os fãs de carteirinha de Calvin e Haroldo.
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For a generation absorbed by the question of human destiny and’the meaning of history, Post-historic Man will be the most daring and provocative forecast of man’s future that has yet appeared. Drawing its analogies from the laws of Modern science, and closely analyzing the accelerating trend toward increased organization of every aspect of life, it projects a future state of human society in which the word human, as we define it today, can hardly be applied.
Seen in the perspective of this book, thee whole of man’s historic existence appears as a transitional period. Preceding that period lies the vast stretch of prehistory during which instinctive human life was governed by the slow processes of geologic evolution. In the future—near or distant—man is destined to arrive at a post-historic stage, in which the impersonal organizing drive of intelligence will have become dominant over the resistance of instinctual forces. In this inherently unavoidable drift man will approach a static condition of fixity—an ultimate state of automatism. The attibutes and values that we regard as human— freedom, personality, conscience, and even consciousness itself—are interpreted as transitional products of the friction between the great contending forces in human evolution.
Post-historic Man is the product of a profound intelligence and a ruthless logic that is willing to carry the implications of modern ideas to their ultimate conclusions. Particularly brilliant is its wholly new and original conception of the ultimate role of the machine in the course of human evolution. It presents a challenge to every thinking man, whether he is scientist or humanist, believer or skeptic. Yet it is a thoroughly undogmatic book. The bones of the argument show through at every point, and the author never fails to note the alternatives that offer themselves at each step. Clearly and concisely written, and rich in its allusiveness to contemporary writing, from Spengler to Toynbee, it is a book that, as Lewis Mumford says, “fulfills the canons of humanism which the argument itself professes to overthrow.”