Name: The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton: And Other Singular Stories From the Victorian Press (en Inglés)
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Author: Jeremy Clay
ISBN: 9781910198278

portada The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton: And Other Singular Stories From the Victorian Press (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Thistle Publishing

Autor

Jeremy Clay

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

262

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781910198278

The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton: And Other Singular Stories From the Victorian Press (en Inglés)

Jeremy Clay (Autor) · Thistle Publishing · Tapa Blanda

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'If you like black humour you will like Clay's eclectic compilation.' The Times 'It's a fun account of the more lurid side of Victorian life that, if you'll forgive me for mentioning Christmas this early, would make a good stocking filler.' Liverpool Echo A summer's afternoon, 1889. In a hotel in the sedate Welsh resort of Llandrindod Wells, holidaymaker Mr T.J. Osborne is preparing to catch the train home. The day is warm. The window is open. A fully-grown African lion leaps in. In the animated few minutes that follow, a startled Mr Osborne gets a crash-course in lion-taming, and after holding the ferocious beast at bay with a chair, becomes the star of a brisk article in the next morning's newspapers. The report of this unlikely encounter is just one of countless extraordinary tales which have lain unseen and unknown in the dusty recesses of newspaper libraries across the nation. Journalist Jeremy Clay has delved into the British Library archives to find the long-lost stories that enthralled and appalled the Victorians. The result is The Burglar Caught By A Skeleton and Other Singular Stories from the Victorian Press, a treasure trove of bizarre, quirky, pathetic and grisly stories from the newspapers of the age. They include: * An unseemly brawl between a bearded lady and a snake charmer. * A fisherman who netted the body of his long-lost brother. * A dozy inventor, killed by his own Wallace and Gromit-style contraption. * A widow living with a corpse, to claim his pension. * A python, stoned to death by boys in Middlesbrough. * A cricket match setting a team of one-legged men against players with one arm. * A drunk monkey, that smashed up a bar after being refused more booze.