Mary Paterson, or, the Fatal Error - Couverture rigide

Pae, David

 
9781906841201: Mary Paterson, or, the Fatal Error
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1906841209 ISBN 13 : 9781906841201
Editeur : Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2015

Synopsis

Mary Paterson, or, The Fatal Error is a high-Victorian tale of the tragic life, and sorry end, of poor Mary Paterson: her fall from grace, her unhappy loves - and her final grisly demise at the hands of Burke and Hare, who kept Edinburgh's anatomists supplied with freshly manufactured corpses. But the melodrama doesn't stop with Mary lying cold upon the dissecting slab: David Pae's galloping novel, originally serialised in the Dundee People's Journal in 1864 and 1865, hounds Burke and Hare to their capture and trial, leads Burke to the gallows, and thereafter follows Hare and his accomplices to their various just deserts. The Scottish writer David Pae was one of the most successful serial novelists of his day. Edited by Caroline McCracken-Flesher, this new edition of Pae's original and unexpurgated tale not only provides a fascinating window into the popular Victorian imagination but is also a highly entertaining novel in its own right.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Pae was one of the most successful novelists of the nineteenth century. His exciting tales were serialised in numerous newspapers across Britain, stirring and shaking the population over their toast and kippers and helping to shape the popular Victorian imagination.

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Éditeur
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1906841209
ISBN 13 
9781906841201
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
504
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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