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Author : Abraham Ellstein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Thief and the Hangman written by Abraham Ellstein and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexandra Roginski
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922235660
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Hanged Man and the Body Thief written by Alexandra Roginski and published by Monash University Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman AS Hamilton, who will take bizarre steps in the aftermath of the execution to exhume this young man’s skull. Hamilton is a lecturer who travels the Australian colonies teaching phrenology, a popular science that claims character and intellect can be judged from a person’s head. For Hamilton, Jim Crow is an important prize. A century and a half later, researchers at Museum Victoria want to repatriate Jim Crow and other Aboriginal people from Hamilton’s collection of human remains to their respective communities. But their only clues are damaged labels and skulls. With each new find, more questions emerge. Who was Jim Crow? Why was he executed? And how did he end up so far south in Melbourne? In a compelling and original work of history, Alexandra Roginski leads the reader through her extensive research aimed at finding the person within the museum piece. Reconstructing the narrative of a life and a theft, she crafts a case study that elegantly navigates between legal and Aboriginal history, heritage studies and biography. The Hanged Man and the Body Thief is a nuanced story about phrenology, a biased legal system, the aspirations of a new museum, and the dilemmas of a theatrical third wife. It is most importantly a tale of two very different men, collector and collected, one of whom can now return home.
Author : Simon Cheshire
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848121008
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Hangman’s Lair written by Simon Cheshire and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three wise-cracking mysteries in one where YOU are the supersleuth! Saxby Smart, private detective, is back with three more puzzling cases: a terrifying visit to The Hangman's Lair to recover stolen money, blackmail is threatened in The Diary of Fear, and in Whispers from the Dead, Saxby must unravel the mystery surrounding a stranger's unearthly powers . . . In this fourth exciting book Saxby Smart - schoolboy detective - gives you clues which help solve the mystery. Are you smart enough to work out the answers?
Author : Carter J. Gregory
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645305147
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (453 download)
Download or read book The Hangman's Psalm: The Girl at the Gallows written by Carter J. Gregory and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hangman’s Psalm: The Girl at the Gallows By: Carter J. Gregory Public hangings were great sport in 18th century London. Mobs of cursing men and shrieking women would turn out to witness a doomed man being hauled to the scaffold where the hangman, Jack Ketch, awaited him. The spectacle was given an aura of sanctity when choirs and bells pealed out hymns in praise of God, and the doomed man was required to recite the damning words of the biblical Psalm 51: “Behold I was shapen in wickedness and in sin did my mother conceive me”—or be lashed with a Cat o' nine tails if he refused. The Psalm was called The Hangman's Psalm. NOTE: Psalm 51 has been misunderstood for centuries. It is an example of Hebrew poetry, which is alive with dramatic hyperbole and metaphor, and not to be taken literally. It's a pity that neither the Crown nor jack Ketch knew the entire Psalm, which begins with an affirmation of God's mercy and ends with the ecstatic cry: “Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness, and the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.” A desperate thief, his dead father, a beautiful young girl, a priest, and a hangman are destined to meet at the foot of the gallows—so claims a gypsy fortune teller whose tarot card predicts that someone will die a fool's death...but who? In 18th century London a thief could be hanged for stealing a kerchief, a hat, a bolt of cloth—and the thief in this story, Daniel Tavard, is guilty of such crimes. A bounty of 250 Guineas is offered by the Crown for his capture. But the bounty-hunters are not the ones who bring the thief to the hangman and collect the Guineas. Daniel's birth and death are shrouded in mystery. Why did his father Joseph flee France? Where is his mother? Only Maggie Quinn knows—Joseph's mistress(whore). When Daniel was little he thought Maggie was his mother—she quickly disabused him of that notion. But Maggie knows who his mother is, and why Joseph fled France, and she swore she would never tell the boy. Daniel goes about searching for answers, but as he does so, two bounty-hunters lay a plot to seize him. A young girl, Catherine, enters Daniel's life, and for the love of her he risks his fate at the hands of the bounty-hunters.
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Measure for measure. Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
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Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Poems and Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Plays of William Shakespeare ... with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam. Johnson. 260::London written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Plays of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Plays of William Shakspeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
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Download or read book The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: Twelfth night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 404 pages
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Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Plays, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
