| 单词 | penny dreadful |
| 例句 | Travelers to the village were rare, but occasionally a peddler would come through the village, selling "penny dreadful" accounts of grisly murders, fateful encounters, dire doings and remarkable escapes. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z On his bedside table were loose matches, unused stationery, a penny dreadful left facedown at the page he had stopped reading. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z By focusing solely on Yakov’s death yet hinting at the disappearances of other boys, he had left the article open-ended like a penny dreadful. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “It is Grand Guignol, it is penny dreadful.” Josh Groban to Star in ‘Sweeney Todd’ Revival on Broadway 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z The 19th century had a similar macabre popular fascination, the penny dreadful. Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Conan Doyle wanted his protagonist to rise above the cheap thrills of the penny dreadful. Sherlock is slowly and perversely morphing into Bond. This cannot stand 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z All Victorian life is here, which means the novel itself becomes a kind of freakshow, obsessed with its relationship to its own cleverly chosen epigraphs and the "penny dreadful" tales to which characters allude. Thrillers - reviews 2012-10-11T07:00:02Z Whenever Vanessa was possessed by the Devil—which happened with notable regularity, as befits a penny dreadful—the first horror was always the moment you realized how easily the Devil handles Victorian small talk. The damsel in distress trap: How “Penny Dreadful” betrayed Vanessa Ives 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The term 'penny dreadful' refers to cheap Victorian-era books containing tawdry, graphic stories of monsters and murder, and the show is loosely inspired by the tales of horror that thrilled working-class readers. Actor Hartnett takes on mystery and monsters in 'Penny Dreadful' 2014-05-11T22:58:16Z Casey links the newspaper era that parallels the rise of the penny dreadful with the gestation of the 19th century idea of "new journalism." Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Van Helsing educates Victor in the ways of vampires with the help of a penny dreadful called “Varney the Vampire, or The Feast of Blood,” and then practically adopts the young doctor on the street. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: It's a Bloody Father's Day 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z That a penny dreadful character originally meant just to shock and sicken becomes instead a pitiable victim is a testament to the power of music to make bad guys, if not good, compelling. When ‘A Little Touch of Star Quality’ Is a Little Too Much 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z An adaptation of Christopher Bond’s 1973 play, its key source is a gristly 19th-century penny dreadful, “The String of Pearls: A Romance,” which describes a homicidal barber and the baker Mrs. Lovett, his unsavory accomplice. Let It Bleed: The Perverse Influence of ‘Titus Andronicus’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z What we really respond to is the old kiss-kiss-bang-bang, the thrill of the penny dreadful, the glitter of the music hall, the big-screen swoon. Let’s come out of the Kindle closet and reveal what we’re really reading | Bidisha 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z He was taking a couple of drawings to a penny dreadful office which he was making pictures for at ten shillings a piece. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z To Mr. Palmer's "penny dreadful" plot, the local newspapers add lying details of their own. The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons 2011-05-07T02:00:25.193Z If this were done, literature of the "penny dreadful" description would to a great extent be excluded. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z I never supposed you a reader of the penny dreadful, Brierly," he said, "and 'sleuth' is a word which makes the actual detective smile, and which is not known to the professional vocabulary. The Last Stroke a detective story 2011-02-19T03:01:39.327Z Has a royal escapade of recent date, like a 'penny dreadful,' created a disturbance in your otherwise well-balanced mind? Rambles in Womanland I used it in the approved style of the penny dreadful—pointed it with a stiff arm at my friend's head. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel So while I was learning the ropes I stayed in the 'penny dreadful' kind of play, gradually working my way up. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 Oh, I know this sounds like a penny dreadful, Quinny, but it's true. Changing Winds A Novel That they were the "light reading" of adults, the equivalent of to-day's Ally Sloper or the penny dreadful, is much more probable. Children's Books and Their Illustrators Soon bargee was wrapped in slumber, and the boy buried in a penny dreadful. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Gray is an old Gypsy surname, but the Gypsies of his Life and Adventures are just as unreal as those of any melodrama or penny dreadful. Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) But these were small volumes of few pages, and were doubtless considered as little worthy of preservation as is the modern 'penny dreadful.' The Book-Hunter at Home At this appalling announcement, which sounded like an extract from a penny dreadful, my two romantic friends looked absolutely bewildered. Memoirs Basil, did I dream it, or read it long ago in some old penny dreadful of the past?' Much Darker Days At the present time the device of coincidence is left to its true monopolists, the Society for Psychical Research and the manufacturers of the penny dreadful. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Ellen confessed that she had seen him running after the Lincoln children, and supposing him with them, had given herself up to the study of a penny dreadful in company with another young nursemaid. That Stick "Some lazy loafer reading a penny dreadful," I thought, glancing at him, then at the title of his book. In Search of the Unknown He did for the penny dreadful what Coleridge had done for the penny ballad. The Victorian Age in Literature It has no more claim to be called a work of art than the cheapest penny dreadful. Much Darker Days For nothing can be in finer contrast with Lewis' penny dreadful, than the martial ring of the verse and the manly vigor of the style in Scott's part of the book. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Transcriber's Note: This book was originally published in "penny dreadful" form. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood Browning's tale of crime was styled on its appearance by a distinguished critic of Elizabethan drama the story of a "penny dreadful." Robert Browning Last and most important of all, we have known him as the rare hero and the conventional villain of romance, ranging from the admirable stories of Cooper to the last production of the "penny dreadful." George Washington, Volume II But this thing's elaborately simple, like a penny dreadful: 'In the purple grotto you will find the golden casket.' The Wisdom of Father Brown We have no place for him in our scheme of art unless it be in comic opera or in the penny dreadful. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The wild plans he began to unfold would hardly bear repetition outside the pages of a penny dreadful. The Home and the World The story of the "penny dreadful" is here rehandled and becomes a tragedy of which the material part is only a translation into external deed of a tragedy of the soul. Robert Browning Search revealed Wilfred, who hated dancing, reading a "penny dreadful" in his room—ready to start, save for the trifling detail of having neglected to wash an extremely dirty face. Back to Billabong My mother put into words all that was necessary of indignation at people's desire for a romance or a "penny dreadful" that would have been temporary and ineffective. Memories of Hawthorne At their elbows boys gloated over the pages of a penny dreadful, and the women fingered penny novelettes with rapid movements, trying to judge the contents from the gaudy cover. Jonah |
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