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H. H. Holmes : the true history of the White...
Inbunden bok. Skyhorse Publishing. 2017. 430 sidor.
ISBN 9781510713437
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The Devil in the White City
Häftad bok. Random House USA. 2004. 464 sidor.
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- ISBN
- 9780375725609
- Titel
- The Devil in the White City
- Författare
- Larson, Erik
- Förlag
- Random House USA
- Utgivningsår
- 2004
- Omfång
- 464 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Häftad
- Mått
- 126 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 24 mm
- Vikt
- 500 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. "As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find." -San Francisco ChronicleCombining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds-a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into the enchantment of the Guilded Age, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
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- ISBN
- 9780553813531
- Titel
- Devil in the White City
- Författare
- Larson, Erik
- Förlag
- Transworld
- Utgivningsår
- 2004
- Omfång
- 495 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 127 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 30 mm
- Vikt
- 340 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Soon to be a major film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H H Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men together with a remarkable supporting cast of colourful characters, including as Buffalo Bill, George Ferris, Thomas Edison and some of the 27 million others who converged on the dazzling spectacle of the White City, are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.
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Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9780553813531
- Titel
- Devil in the White City
- Författare
- Larson, Erik
- Förlag
- Transworld
- Utgivningsår
- 2004
- Omfång
- 495 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 127 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 30 mm
- Vikt
- 340 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Soon to be a major film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H H Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men together with a remarkable supporting cast of colourful characters, including as Buffalo Bill, George Ferris, Thomas Edison and some of the 27 million others who converged on the dazzling spectacle of the White City, are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.
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Three Jacobean Tragedies (Tourneur / The Reve...
Pocketbok.
ISBN 9780140430066
Mycket gott skick. Penguin Books Ltd. Harmondsworth, 1971. Pocket. 364 s.
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The White Devil
Inbunden bok. Methuen & Co. Ltd. Första uppl. 1960. 205 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. Skyddsomslag i gott skick. Språk: Engelska. Ett fåtal anteckningar med blyerts
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Three Jacobean Tragedies: Tourneaur: The Reve...
Pocketbok. Penguin Books. 1965. 366 sidor.
Gott skick. Engelsk text. Namnad
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The anatomy of evil. A study of John Webster'...
Häftad bok. Lund, CWK Gleerup. 1974. 236 sidor.
Gott skick. Printed wrappers. Slightly faded. With dissertation sheet. Lund Studies in English 48.
Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK- ISBN
- 9140036200
- Titel
- The anatomy of evil - a study of John Webster's The white devil
- Författare
- Dallby, Anders
- Förlag
- Gleerup
- Utgivningsår
- 1974
- Omfång
- 236 sidor
- Språk
- English
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The white devil. The duchess of Malfi. The br...
Pocketbok.
An Everyman Paperback 1964. Pocket. 336 sid. Bra skick.
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The White Devil
Edited by J.R. Mulraney
Edward Arnold UK 1970
Hft. 158s. Gott skickInrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
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