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  • Ten Days in a Mad-House
    Nellie Bly
    Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by American journalist Nellie Bly. The book was based on articles written while Bly was on an undercover assignment for the New York World, feigning insanity at a women’s boarding house, so as to be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. She then investigated the reports of brutality and neglect at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’...
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    16,70 €

  • Six Months in Mexico
    Nellie Bly
    'Six Months in Mexico' offers a captivating glimpse into 19th-century Mexico through the eyes of pioneering journalist Nellie Bly. More than a simple travelogue, this book provides insightful social commentary on the customs, culture, and daily life of the Mexican people during a period of significant change.Bly’s observations, penned during her six-month journey, reveal a nati...
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    23,19 €

  • The Mystery of Central Park
    Nellie Bly
    Venture into the heart of New York City with 'The Mystery of Central Park,' a captivating urban mystery. Explore the iconic landscapes and hidden corners of Central Park as the story unfolds, drawing readers into a world of intrigue and suspense.Authored by the celebrated Nellie Bly, this timeless tale blends the allure of mystery with the vibrant backdrop of city life. Set aga...
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    17,80 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly’s Experience on Blackwell’s Island.
    Nellie Bly
    'Ten Days in a Mad-House: or, Nellie Bly’s Experience on Blackwell’s Island' is a harrowing work of investigative journalism from the 19th century. In this gripping account, Nellie Bly, a reporter for the *New York World*, fearlessly exposes the brutal realities of mental asylums. Bly feigned insanity to be admitted to Blackwell’s Island, where she witnessed firsthand the deplo...
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    20,22 €

  • Ten Days in A Mad-House
    Nellie Bly
    Step into the daring and groundbreaking world of Nellie Bly, the trailblazing journalist who redefined investigative reporting. In 10 Days in a Mad-house, Bly takes readers on a gripping and harrowing journey through the corridors of Blackwell’s Island Asylum, where she went undercover to expose the inhumane conditions and systemic abuse inflicted upon society’s most vulnerable...
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    9,27 €

  • Ten Days in a Madhouse
    Nellie Bly
    Ten Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly is a groundbreaking work of investigative journalism that offers a harrowing look inside the conditions of 19th-century mental asylums. Disguising herself as a patient, Bly gains admittance to the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island, where she witnesses firsthand the mistreatment and abuse of the women confined there.Through her cou...
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    8,32 €

  • The mystery of Central Park; A Novel
    Nellie Bly
    The mystery of Central Park; A Novel, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, ret...
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    15,79 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House
    Nellie Bly
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    16,72 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly’s Experience on Blackwell’s Island. Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World’s Girl Correspondent.
    Nellie Bly
    Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly’s Experience on Blackwell’s Island. Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World’s Girl Correspondent., is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its pres...
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    20,95 €

  • Ten Days In A Mad-house Or, Nellie Bly’s Experience On Blackwell’s Island
    Nellie Bly
    'Ten Days in a Mad-House' offers a riveting firsthand account by pioneering journalist Nellie Bly as she intentionally becomes institutionalized on Blackwell’s Island in order to expose the appalling conditions within mental asylums. Bly’s narrative unfolds as a powerful exposé, detailing the dehumanizing treatment, neglect, and injustices faced by vulnerable women labeled as m...
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    11,97 €

  • Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
    Nellie Bly
    Nellie Bly’s solo trip around the globe broke records as she chronicled her journey in this fantastic vintage travelogue. First published in 1890, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days offers a unique perspective of the world in the late 19th century.Writing under the pseudonym of Nellie Bly, the American journalist, Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, traveled around the world following...
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    23,46 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House
    Nellie Bly
    Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly went undercover in the late 1800s to shed light on the horrific conditions of Victorian mental asylums. This is the eye-opening account of her experience. Nellie Bly feigned insanity to be admitted to a mental institution with the intent of exposing its awful conditions first-hand. Her account reveals the institution’s inhumane treatment, abuse ...
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    21,35 €

  • Women in Journalism - The Best of Nellie Bly
    Nellie Bly
    First published between 1887 and 1890, Women in Journalism - The Best of Nellie Bly is an insightful volume containing all of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman’s best journalistic works, including the famous exposé, Ten Days in a Mad-House.Women in Journalism includes the most shocking and captivating reports that Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman wrote during her journalistic career. The pion...
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    42,76 €

  • Six Months in Mexico;And Other Investigative Journalism Articles
    Nellie Bly
    From the famous stunt girl reporter who wrote the well-known exposé, Ten Days in a Mad-House, this 1888 travelogue details Nellie Bly’s experience of living in Mexico in the late nineteenth century.Under the pseudonym of Nellie Bly, Six Months in Mexico chronicles her time spent living in Mexico in 1885. The American journalist provides a fascinating window into the country’s c...
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    26,62 €

  • Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
    Nellie Bly
    'She was part of the ’stunt girl’ movement that was very important in the 1880s and 1890s as these big, mass-circulation yellow journalism papers came into the fore.' -Brooke KroegerAround the World in Seventy-Two Days (1890) is a travel narrative by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. Proposed as a recreation of the journey undertaken by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s...
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    7,48 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad House
    Nellie Bly
    Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887) is a book by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. For her first assignment for Joseph Pulitzer’s famed New York World newspaper, Bly went undercover as a patient at a notorious insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island. Spending ten days there, she recorded the abuses and neglect she witnessed, turning her research into a sensational two-part s...
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    5,77 €

  • Six Months in Mexico
    Nellie Bly
    In 1887, Nellie Bly stormed into the office of the New York World, one of the leading newspapers in the country. She expressed interest in writing a story on the immigrant experience in the United States. Although, the editor declined her story he challenged Bly to investigate one of New York’s most notorious mental hospitals. Bly not only accepted the challenge, she decided to...
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    21,43 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House
    Nellie Bly
    In 1887, Nellie Bly stormed into the office of the New York World, one of the leading newspapers in the country. She expressed interest in writing a story on the immigrant experience in the United States. Although, the editor declined her story he challenged Bly to investigate one of New York’s most notorious mental hospitals. Bly not only accepted the challenge, she decided to...
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    19,12 €

  • Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
    Nellie Bly
    Published in 1890 under the pseudonym Nellie Bly, “Around the World in Seventy-Two Days” is the true account by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran of her daring trip around the world. Inspired by Jules Verne’s book “Around the World in Eighty Days”, Bly proposed to her newspaper editor that she undertake a similar adventure. On November 14, 1889, she boarded a steamer ship in Ne...
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    9,97 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House
    Nellie Bly
    Originally appearing as a series of articles in “New York World” magazine and then published as a book in 1887, “Ten Days in a Mad-House” by the journalist Nellie Bly is the shocking true account of her time spent undercover at the Woman’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island in New York. Bly posed as a madwoman and was able to convince several doctors to have her committed to ...
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    8,02 €

  • Ten Days in A Madhouse
    Nellie Bly
    Ten Days in A Madhouse is the true account of investigative journalist Nellie Bly’s confinement inside an insane asylum. In 1887 the young female reporter entered the asylum under the guise of insanity to investigate rumors of brutality and neglect at the infamous Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York City.  The asylum was underfunded, grossly overcrowded, and plagued wi...
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    10,87 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House (Annotated)
    Nellie Bly
    In 1887, journalist Nellie Bly posed as a mentally ill, homeless woman in order to expose conditions at the Blackwell’s Island asylum in New York City. Her descriptions of the neglect and abuse women residents endured shocked readers, prompted improvements in the treatment of the mentally ill, and remain a landmark in the history of investigative journalism. ...
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    10,55 €

  • Undercover
    Nellie Bly
    A compilation of original, unabridged newspaper articles by Elizabeth Jane Cochran, who wrote under the name Nellie Bly. By disguising her voice, mannerisms and appearance, this intrepid reporter gained admittance to New York's vast cultural underground of criminals, con artists, and frauds, and fearlessly exposed their scams and shenanigans to a rapt and growing audience on th...
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    25,23 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House
    Nellie Bly
    'The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.' -Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-HouseTen Days in a Mad-House (1887) by Nellie Bly describes what happened when the author, a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World, went undercover and had herself committed to the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Black...
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    9,38 €