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232 pages • first pub 1927 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780940322677
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Edition Pub Date: 31 October 1999
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A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed a...
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232 pages • first pub 1927 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780940322677
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Edition Pub Date: 31 October 1999
Description
A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed a...