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131 produkter
Ideographic Modernism
China, Writing, Media
Inbunden, 2010
713 kr
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The ideograph is conventionally understood as a script that is ancient and Chinese; it is neither. The 'ideograph' is a modern Western invention, one contemporaneous with, and related to, such modern inventions as photography, phonography, and cinematography. Ideographic Modernism analyzes the …
Ideographic Modernism
China, Writing, Media
E-bok, 2010
431 kr
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Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Through analyses of works by Claudel, Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, Segalen, and Valery, among others, Christopher Bush traces the interweaving of Western modernity''s …
Ideographic Modernism
China, Writing, Media
E-bok, 2010
431 kr
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Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Through analyses of works by Claudel, Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, Segalen, and Valery, among others, Christopher Bush traces the interweaving of Western modernity''s …
Ideographic Modernism
China, Writing, Media
Häftad, 2012
729 kr
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Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Through analyses of works by Claudel, Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, Segalen, and Valery, among others, Christopher Bush traces the interweaving of Western modernity's …
Perfect Murder Case
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2017
171 kr
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I am going to commit a murder. I offer no apology for the curtness of the statement. An individual taking the name ‘Marius’ boasts in a series of letters that he will commit the Perfect Murder, daring Scotland Yard detectives to catch him if they can. Ex-CID officer John Franklin and the amateur …
Dead Man Twice
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2017
68 kr
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“And that’s not all. Somers is dead too … He poisoned himself … in the lounge!” The great English boxer Michael France looks set to become the new Heavyweight Champion of the world. Everyone is waiting with bated breath for the forthcoming and decisive match. Ex-CID officer John Franklin is no …
Murder at Fenwold
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2017
68 kr
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“And that’s not all. Somers is dead too … He poisoned himself … in the lounge!” When the wealthy Cosmo Revere is killed by a falling tree, ex-CID officer John Franklin and Ludovic Travers chance to be staying in the vicinity. After examining the scene Franklin determines it was no accident. At the …
Dancing Death
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2017
68 kr
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However thorough your search was, I’m convinced the murderer, or the burglar—call him what you will—is still in the house. Little Levington Hall, the site of the seasonal house party in Dancing Death, is owned by Martin Braishe, inventor of a lethal gas. Unfortunately for Braishe and his …
Dead Man's Music
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2017
67 kr
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“If you don’t think I’m taking a liberty in saying so, my opinion is that he was knocked down first and hanged after!” Ludovic Travers starts an investigation of unnatural death by means of an automobile mishap on a rural road. His associate Superintendent Wharton is investigating a suspicious …
Cut Throat
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2017
67 kr
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Travers looked down at the face. On the collar was a red patch and a long streak. Across the throat was a gash. Two rival London newspaper tycoons are at daggers drawn. But when Sir William Griffith’s corpse turns up in a hamper, his throat cut from ear to ear, the enmity appears to turned deadly. …
Case of the Unfortunate Village
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2017
68 kr
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“It was some sort of sudden death?” Travers made a face. “It certainly was sudden. I’ll say it’s ten to one it was murder.” Ludovic Travers is asked by an old school friend, Henry Dryden, to investigate the cause of the agitation in the formerly placid village of Bableigh – not to mention the …
Case of the April Fools
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2017
68 kr
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“Let us know when you’re dead!” Ludovic Travers had known it was a publicity stunt, all that business about the anonymous threatening letters. He expected a hoax but what he found was two men lying dead on the floor of Crewe’s bedroom. To be confronted with murder at eight in the morning was no …
Case of the Three Strange Faces
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2017
68 kr
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Old Hunt slithered in the most amazing way and then fell to the floor. He lay between the seats, face upwards. Ludovic Travers is on his way by train from Toulon to Marignac. Along for the ride are several suspicious characters, two of whom die en route. Although the murders seem at first …
Plumley Inheritance
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2017
68 kr
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“Have you heard the news, sir?” the waiter said. “I’m afraid I haven’t. What is it?” “Plumley’s dead, sir. Henry Plumley. We just got the news over the ’phone. Suicide they say it was. Anything else you want, sir?” Out-of-print for over nine decades and one of the rarest classic crime novels from …
Case of the 100% Alibis
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2018
75 kr
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“Send someone here quick. There’s been a murder!” Mr Lewton is dead. Stabbed through the back, no possibility of suicide—and no sign of a knife either. The deceased made a phone call summoning a doctor immediately before his own death. And the servant who supposedly reported the murder wasn’t even …
Case of the Dead Shepherd
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2018
68 kr
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Travers turned to Wharton. “I ask you, George, as a man of the world—do schoolmasters and mistresses have souls full of glamour and passion and intrigue? Are they torn by the same emotions that rend people like us?” At first the old schoolmaster’s poisoning was judged a suicide. But there were too …
Case of the Chinese Gong
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
E-bok, 2018
67 kr
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“Murder is easy. It’s child’s play to commit murder and get away with it.” Unpleasant uncle Hubert is murdered while playing cards—and surrounded by any number of relatives who stand to gain by his death. An impossible crime, it seems, though it turns out three of his nephews were intending to …
