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
7Life and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the noted western outlaws
8CHAPTER I. THE JAMES FAMILY.
9CHAPTER II. FRANK AND JESSE.
10CHAPTER VII. ADVENTURES IN SEPARATE FIELDS.
11CHAPTER XIV. WERE THEY DRIVEN TO OUTLAWRY?
12CHAPTER XX. THE CASH BOX OF THE FAIR.
13CHAPTER XXV. AFTER GADSHILL.
14CHAPTER XXX. FARMER ASKEW'S FATE.
15CHAPTER XXXVII. IN MINNESOTA.
16CHAPTER XLI. THE ROBBERS AND THEIR FRIENDS.
17CHAPTER XLV. A VISIT TO FRANK JAMES' HOME.
18CHAPTER XLIX. GEORGE W. SHEPHERD.
19Plays: The Father; Countess Julie; The Outlaw; The Stronger
20Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
21PUBLISHER'S NOTE.
22ACT II.
23COUNTESS JULIE
24THE OUTLAW
25THE STRONGER
26Jules of the Great Heart. "Free" Trapper and Outlaw in the Hudson Bay Region in the Early Days
27I A TRAGEDY OF THE SNOW
28II AN UNRECOVERED TRAIL
29III JULES OF THE GREAT HEART
30IV JULES TO THE RESCUE
31V JULES’S STRATAGEM
32VI NOËL
33VII “REMEMBER JULES!”
34VIII “SOMME T’ING FOR HEEM”
35IX MAN AGAINST MAN
36X INTO THE NORTH
37XI THE NEW COUNTRY
38XII THE MEETING
39XIII SOLITUDE
40XIV LIGHT OF THE EVENING
41XV “NO GREATER FRIEND....”
42XVI THE MESSENGER
43XVII THE DREAM OF MORNING STAR
44XVIII FULFILMENT OF THE DREAM
45XIX THE AWAKENING OF THE GREAT HEART
46XX THE QUEST
47XXI ON THE HEIGHTS
48XXII ETIENNE ANNAOTAHA
49XXIII THE CROSS ON THE MOUNTAIN
50XXIV “JE SUIS CONTENT!”
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