Showing results for "Jago" in Literature & Fiction

Frances Howard has beauty and a powerful family - and is the most unhappy creature in the world. Anne Turner has wit and talent - but no stage on which to display them. Little stands between her and the abyss of destitution. When these two very different women meet in the strangest of circumstances, a powerful friendship is sparked.

Four more supernatural adventures for the infamous infernal investigators. 7.1 The Monstrous Menagerie by Jonathan Morris: Jago and Litefoot are on the run! Framed for a crime they didn’t commit, the infernal investigators seek refuge in a house on Baker Street owned by their old friend, Professor Dark. That's when Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle enters their lives.

A Child of the Jago is both thriller and condemnation of social conditions in the East End slums at the turn of the century. Boy hero Dicky Perrott is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. "It was my fate to encounter a place in Shoreditch where children were born and reared in circumstances which gave them no reasonable chance of living decent lives: where they were born fore-damned to a criminal or semi criminal career.

Published in 1896, A Child of the Jago is a gritty and realistic portrayal of life in the slums of London’s East End during the late 19th century. The novel is set in an area known as the Old Jago (based on a real-life slum called the Old Nichol) and vividly describes the poverty, crime and squalor that characterised the impoverished neighbourhood.

On a blazing hot summer’s day, holidaymakers at a guesthouse on a Norwegian island are shocked to discover a fellow guest has been found murdered out on a desolate plain. The nameless narrator, an author, was the last person to see the victim alive; shortly afterwards, he was disturbed by a noise like "a rattling of chains". A local tells him this is "the iron chariot", which is said to presage death. Drawn unwillingly into the investigation, the narrator is puzzled by an enigmatic detective’s apparent inaction, and troubled by unfolding events.

The writing's on the wall for Harry Kvist. Once a notorious boxer, he now spends his days drinking, and his nights chasing debts amongst the pimps, prostitutes and petty thieves of 1930s Stockholm. When women can't satisfy him, men can. But one biting winter's night he pays a threatening visit to a debtor named Zetterberg, and when the man is found dead shortly afterwards, all eyes are on Kvist. Kvist's struggle to clear his name will lead him from the city's slums, gangster hideouts and gambling dens to its most opulent hotels and elite nightclubs.

This grimly picturesque novel by Arthur Morrison was first published in 1897. The central character is Dicky Perrott, an urchin living in the Jago, an extremely squalid district of London's East End. The Jago is based on the Old Nichol slum, which lay at the back of Shoreditch High Street, and which has since been demolished. The novel describes Dicky's futile attempts to escape from the soul-destroying environment of the Jago, with the support of the Reverend Henry Sturt, who was based on the historical East End crusader, Arthur Osborne Jay, to whom the book is dedicated.

Der Sabbatwelten-Kreuzzug hat die Festungswelt Jago erreicht und das Erste Tanith erhält die lebenswichtige - und gefährliche - Mission, eine Schlüsselpassage gegen den Feind zu verteidigen, untergebracht in einem alten Herrenhaus, dem Hinzerhaus. Doch dort tragen sich seltsame Dinge zu. Stimmen flüstern im Wind und Menschen verschwinden spurlos. Mit Feinden vor den Toren und Gespenstern im Innern müssen Kommissar-Oberst Gaunt und seine Männer sich ihren Ängsten stellen - denn nur im Tod endet die Pflicht.

Die legendäre "Grüne Serie" der 1970er Jahre - restauriert und zum ersten Mal chronologisch digital verfügbar! Mit dem Look der alten MARITIM-Langspielplatten. Hörspiel von Kurt Vethake nach dem berühmten Roman von KARL MAY. In dieser Folge hört Ihr "In den Schluchten des Balkan".

Die legendäre "Grüne Serie" der 1970er Jahre - restauriert und zum ersten Mal chronologisch digital verfügbar! Mit dem Look der alten MARITIM-Langspielplatten. Hörspiel von Kurt Vethake nach dem berühmten Roman von KARL MAY. In dieser Folge hört Ihr "Durchs wilde Kurdistan".