The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Thorndike Press Large Print Peer Picks) - Hardcover

Larson, Erik

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410455769 ISBN 13: 9781410455765

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2013

Synopsis

"Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. Daniel Hudson Burnham, a renowned architect, was the brilliant director of works for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor, was the satanic murderer of scores of young women in a torture palace built for the purpose near the fairgrounds"--page 4 of cover.

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Review:

"Fuses history and entertainment to give the dramatic effect of a novel...this truth really is stranger than fiction" (The New York Times)

"Erik Larson tracks [H H Holmes] with practised journalistic skill...Highly readable" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Captures the spirit of an America bursting with pioneering drive...a gripping book" (Independent on Sunday)

"An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction" (Time Out)

"Bursting with so much vitality you half expect it to jump right out of your hands" (Yorkshire Evening Post)

Book Description:

Chicago, 1893. One man built a heaven on earth. Another built hell beside it...

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1410455769
• ISBN 13: 9781410455765
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 691