Author: Morton WishengradPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Thief and the Hangman
Author: Morton WishengradThe Thief and the Hangman
Author: Abraham EllsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Thief and the Hangman
Author: Abraham EllsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
The Hanged Man and the Body Thief
Author: Alexandra RoginskiPublisher: Monash University Publishing
ISBN: 1922235660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: The monk and the hangman's daughter. Fantastic fables. Fables from "Fun." Aesopus emendatus. Old saws with new teeth. Fables in rhyme
Author: Ambrose BierceThe Plays
Author: William ShakespearePoems and Plays
Author: William ShakespeareThe Hangman's Replacement
Author: Taona D. ChivenekoPublisher: Chiveneko Publishing Inc
ISBN: 0991852400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
If you had to interview the candidates for a country's new hangman, what questions would you ask them? If your family was on the verge of starvation, and becoming a hangman was the only job available, would you apply? If you were hired, what would you do if the prisoners looked like your loved ones? If you knew that another good man was taking the job out of desperation, would you do anything to prevent him from getting it? What if that man's recruitment would somehow guarantee your own survival, would you encourage his candidacy? All these questions were asked of people who never thought they would find themselves in such a position, until they became mired in the chaos surrounding the hangman's replacement.
The Hangman’s Lair
Author: Simon CheshirePublisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1848121008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
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: William Shakespeare