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Great Short Works of Herman Melville
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Herman Melville |
Collection of 22 stories:
The Town-Ho's Story
[Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener)
Cock-A-Doodle Doo
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles
The … |
OL102653W |
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Billy Budd
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Herman Melville |
TRIALS OF THE HANDSOME SAILOR
Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the Handsome Sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, noble looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful … |
OL102746W |
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London
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David Brandon |
London: City of the Dead is a groundbreaking account of London's dealing with death, covering the afterlife, execution, bodysnatching, murder, fatal disease, spiritualism, bizarre deaths and cemeteri… |
OL13766775W |
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Works (Lazy Tour of Apprentices / Tale of Two Cities)
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Charles Dickens |
Contains:
- Lazy Tour of Apprentices
- [Tale of Two Cities](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8721465W/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities) |
OL14869637W |
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A Tale of Two Cities and Related Readings
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Marie Antoinette,Ruth F. Glancy,Charles Dickens,David Lawday,John Elliott,Oliver Bernier |
[A tale of two cities](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8721465W) / Charles Dickens --
Outline of the Revolution (historical nonfiction) / John Elliot --
from A tale of two cities: Dickens's revolut… |
OL14869957W |
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Novels (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd)
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Herman Melville |
Contains:
- [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener)
- Benito Cereno
- [Billy Budd](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102746W/Billy_Budd) |
OL14953515W |
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Selected Writings of Herman Melville
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Herman Melville |
Contains:
[Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener)
Encantadas or enchanted isles --
Isles at large --
Two side to a tortoise --
Rock Rodondo --… |
OL14953715W |
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The Eyes of Willie McGee
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Alex Heard |
A gripping saga of race and retribution in the Deep South and a story whose haunting details echo the themes of To Kill a MockingbirdIn 1945, Willie McGee, a young African-American man from Laurel, M… |
OL15158415W |
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The last face you'll ever see
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Ivan Solotaroff |
Examines the death penalty in America in the light of interviews with the executioners. |
OL16070478W |
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Procedure for military executions
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United States Department of War |
PAM 27-4 Procedure For Military Executions 1944-06-12
War Department Pamphlet 27-4. |
OL16520525W |
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Works (Billy Budd / Story of Toby / Typee)
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Herman Melville |
Contains:
- [Billy Budd](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102746W/Billy_Budd)
- Story of Toby
- Typee |
OL17961990W |
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens,Marion Leighton |
A Reign of Terror!
The mobs in the streets run wild, and danger is everywhere.
Lucy Manette, half-English, half-French, lives quietly with her family in London. Having rescued her father many y… |
OL18159157W |
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Death in the peaceable kingdom
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Dimitry Anastakis |
Death in the Peaceable Kingdom is an intelligent, innovative response to the incorrect assumption that Canadian history is dry and uninspiring. Using the "hooks" of murder, execution, assassination, … |
OL21446296W |
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Executions in America
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Frederick Drimmer |
"From the first Pilgrim hanged in 1630 right up to Ted Bundy in 1989, legal execution has been a facet of the American justice system. Now, for the first time ever, the dramatic history of the men an… |
OL23201543W |
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Blood ties
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C. C. Humphreys |
Jean Rombaud, wearied by the betrayal of a son and the scorn of a wife, fights in the seemingly never ending siege of Siena. Meanwhile, Gianni Rombaud has forsaken everything his father stands for an… |
OL24766022W |
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The Pardon
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James Grippando |
An estranged father and son -- one a brilliant defense lawyer, the other the governor of Florida -- must overcome their differences to stop a cunning psychopath.Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defens… |
OL30552W |
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Among the lowest of the dead
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David von Drehle |
From the cavernous halls of justice to the desolate cells on death row, from the brutal crimes of the convicted to the unbearable anguish of the victims, prizewinning journalist David Von Drehle take… |
OL3458467W |
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The Guns of Meeting Street
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T. Felder Dorn |
"As compelling as fiction, The Guns of Meeting Street reconstructs a series of sensational murders in the early 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, South Carolina, and riveted the attention of … |
OL3538132W |
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The anniversary
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Amy Gutman |
Three women reach the edge of terror as the secret past they all share is unearthed and turned against them. It?s been five years since the execution of Steven Gage, a devious, charming psychopath wh… |
OL5960601W |
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The Penalty Is Death
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Marlin Shipman |
"In "The Penalty Is Death," Marlin Shipman examines the shifts in press coverage of women's executions over the past one hundred and fifty years. Since the colonies' first execution of a woman in 163… |
OL8584013W |