【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Including a chronicle of his first mescaline experience, a trailer-park confrontation and ending with an unnaturally poignant love story, ＜em＞Screwjack＜/em＞ is an exhilarating collection of short stories. As Thompson puts it in his introduction, the three stories here ‘build like Bolero to a faster &wilder climax that will drag the reader relentlessly up a hill, &then drop him off a cliff . . . That is the Desired Effect.’＜/p＞ ＜p＞Amid all the hilarity, Hunter S. Thompson proves just how brilliant a prose stylist he really is. ＜em＞Screwjack＜/em＞ is salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical.＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Hunter Thompson elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at QueenVictoria’s funeral’ William F Buckley＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘There are only two adjectives writers care about anymore, ＜em＞brilliant＜/em＞ and ＜em＞outrageous＜/em＞, and Hunter S. Thompson has a freehold on both of ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞A pioneer of modern fencing, Alfred Hutton was the first president of the Amateur Fencing Association and a father of modern research into the Western combat arts. In addition to his lectures about ancient weapons and his demonstrations of their use, Hutton created this 1889 classic, a continuing source of instruction and enlightenment to modern readers.＜br /＞ The techniques associated with the sabre differ markedly from those of the ?pe? and the rapier. This study offers both technical and historical views of the art of the sabre. It begins with a look at the weapon's construction and its grip, followed by explanations of a variety of different strokes and parries as well as methods of combining attack and defense. Additional topics include approaches suitable for left-handed fencers, ceremonial aspects of the art, and contrasts between the sabre, the bayonet, and the French sword. Descriptions of associated weapons cov...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞The lifelong link between a formerly enslaved woman and her childhood mistress provides a unique view of life in Reconstruction era Louisville.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Born into slavery, Cecelia Reynolds was presented as a birthday gift to her nine-year-old mistress, Frances "Fanny" Thruston Ballard. Years later, Cecelia escaped to join the free black population of Canada. But what might have been the end of her connection to Fanny appears to be only the beginning. A cache of letters from Fanny to Cecelia tells of a rare link between two urban families over several decades.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Cecelia and Fanny＜/em＞ is a fascinating look at race relations in mid-nineteenth-century Louisville, Kentucky, focusing on the experiences of these two families during the seismic social upheaval wrought by the emancipation of four million African Americans. Far more than the story of two families, ＜em＞Cecelia and ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞This book offers a unique argument for the emergence of a post-9/11 vampire that showcases changing perspectives on identity and religion in American culture, offering a look at how cultural narratives can be used to work through trauma. Cultural narratives have long played a valuable role inmediating difficult and politically sensitive topics. Christina Wilkins addresses how the figure of the vampire is used in modern narratives and how it has changed from previous incarnations, particularly in American narratives.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The vampire has been a cultural staple for centuries but the current conception of the figure has been arguably Americanized with the rise of the modern American vampire coinciding with the aftermath of 9/11. Wilkins investigates changes evident in cultural representations, and how they effectively mediate the altered approach to issues of trauma and identity. By investing metaphorical tropes with cu...