End of the Line: Five Short Novels about the Death Penalty
- ISBN-10
- 1448662729
- ISBN-13
- 9781448662722
- Series
- End of the Line
- Category
- Capital punishment
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-09-02
- Authors
- Elizabeth Gaskell, Herman Melville, Leonid Andreyev
Description
Five short novels about the death penalty: includes Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo; Lois the Witch by Elizabeth Gaskell; The Dead Alive by Wilkie Collins; Billy Budd by Herman Melville and The Seven Who Were Hanged by Leonid Andreyev.
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