Heroes or Villains? - 5 Classic Books About Outlaws Through Time
Five Classic Tales of Crime, Rebellion, Folk Legend, and Life Beyond the LawBy August Strindberg, J. A. Dacus, Lawrence Mott
Length22h 29m
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Heroes or Villains? - 5 Classic Books About Outlaws Through Time assembles five classic explorations of criminality, rebellion, and social marginality, asking how the outlaw becomes at once a threat to order and an object of fascination. Moving among dramatic, narrative, and adventure-inflected modes, the volume traces the unstable border between justice and vengeance, individual freedom and communal obligation. Its most compelling episodes illuminate how acts branded as lawlessness may also expose the failures of law itself. The collection brings together August Strindberg, J. A. Dacus, and Lawrence Mott, writers whose differing literary temperaments enlarge the anthology's inquiry. Strindberg's association with modern drama and psychological conflict lends particular force to questions of power, motive, and moral ambiguity, while the other selections broaden the volume's historical and popular dimensions. Read collectively, these voices situate outlaw tales within enduring traditions of romance, realism, sensational narrative, and social critique, demonstrating that the figure of the transgressor changes with cultural assumptions about authority. This volume is recommended for readers of classic literature, crime writing, and cultural history. It offers a valuable opportunity to compare distinct styles and ethical perspectives within a single compact anthology. Students and general readers alike will find in its five books an instructive dialogue about heroism, villainy, and the narratives through which societies define both.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length22 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Hunted Outlaw, or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy
2The Hunted Outlaw, or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy
3CHAPTER I.
4CHAPTER XIII. A LETTER FROM DONALD.
5CHAPTER XXIX. DONALD IN THE WOODS OF MEGANTIC.
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6Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the Noted Western Outlaws
7CHAPTER I. THE JAMES FAMILY.
8CHAPTER II. FRANK AND JESSE.
9CHAPTER VII. ADVENTURES IN SEPARATE FIELDS.
10CHAPTER XIV. WERE THEY DRIVEN TO OUTLAWRY?
11CHAPTER XX. THE CASH BOX OF THE FAIR.
12CHAPTER XXV. AFTER GADSHILL.
13CHAPTER XXX. FARMER ASKEW'S FATE.
14CHAPTER XXXVII. IN MINNESOTA.
15CHAPTER XLI. THE ROBBERS AND THEIR FRIENDS.
16CHAPTER XLV. A VISIT TO FRANK JAMES' HOME.
17CHAPTER XLIX. GEORGE W. SHEPHERD.
18Plays: The Father; Countess Julie; The Outlaw; The Stronger
19PUBLISHER'S NOTE.
20ACT II.
21COUNTESS JULIE
22THE OUTLAW
23THE STRONGER
24Jules of the Great Heart. "Free" Trapper and Outlaw in the Hudson Bay Region in the Early Days
25I A TRAGEDY OF THE SNOW
26II AN UNRECOVERED TRAIL
27III JULES OF THE GREAT HEART
28IV JULES TO THE RESCUE
29V JULES’S STRATAGEM
30VI NOËL
31VII “REMEMBER JULES!”
32VIII “SOMME T’ING FOR HEEM”
33IX MAN AGAINST MAN
34X INTO THE NORTH
35XI THE NEW COUNTRY
36XII THE MEETING
37XIII SOLITUDE
38XIV LIGHT OF THE EVENING
39XV “NO GREATER FRIEND....”
40XVI THE MESSENGER
41XVII THE DREAM OF MORNING STAR
42XVIII FULFILMENT OF THE DREAM
43XIX THE AWAKENING OF THE GREAT HEART
44XX THE QUEST
45XXI ON THE HEIGHTS
46XXII ETIENNE ANNAOTAHA
47XXIII THE CROSS ON THE MOUNTAIN
48XXIV “JE SUIS CONTENT!”
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