The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the - Photographer Eadweard Muybridg

Zusatztext A fascinating piece of historical detective work . . . that brings the extraodinary Larkyns to life Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Gowers is the author of The Swamp of Death , a narrative analysis of a striking 1890 murder case, shortlisted for the CWA non-fiction Gold Dagger award; and of two novels, When to Walk and The Twisted Heart , both longlisted for the Orange Prize. In 2014, she became the fourth editor of Plain Words , classic guide to the use of English by her great-grandfather, Sir Ernest Gowers; and she followed this with her own, anti-establishment guide to the misuse of English, Horrible Words . The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns takes her back to her fascination with nineteenth-century literature, history and crime, and is both a non-standard biography, and a radically new exploration of a seminal murder. Klappentext The astonishing true story of a nineteenth-century scoundrel and his murder at the hands of photographer Eadweard Muybridge, a founding father of cinema Vorwort The astonishing true story of a nineteenth-century scoundrel and his murder at the hands of photographer Eadweard Muybridge, a founding father of cinema Zusammenfassung The astonishing true story of a nineteenth-century scoundrel and his murder at the hands of photographer Eadweard Muybridge, a founding father of cinema

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Gowers, Gowers Rebecca
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781474606431
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0643-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, True Crime, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, TRUE CRIME / Murder / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899