Newgate

Author : Keith Scribner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525563466
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Newgate Road written by Keith Scribner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It’s where Cole Callahan spent his youth, in a historic white colonial in which he hasn’t set foot in thirty years—not since he was a teenager, when one night his father murdered his mother in a fit of rage. Now Cole has returned to discover his elderly father, freed from prison, living alone in their old home and succumbing to dementia. Matters grow even more complicated when Cole’s rabble-rousing son Daniel is expelled from high school. So Cole summons Daniel to Connecticut to work in the tobacco fields—Cole’s own job growing up. Forced together, these three generations of men must contend with the sinister history they share—and desperately try to invent a future that isn’t doomed by it.

Author : Stephen Halliday
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752495550
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newgate written by Stephen Halliday and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious and worst. Built during the twelfth century, it became a legendary place - the inspiration of more poems, plays and novels than any other building in London. It was a place of cruelty and wretchedness, at various times holding Dick Turpin, Titus Oates, Daniel Defoe, Jack Sheppard and Casanova. Because prisons were privately run, any time spent in prison had to be paid for by the prisoner. Housing varied from a private cell with a cleaning woman and a visiting prostitute, to simply lying on the floor with no cover. Those who died inside - and only a quarter of prisoners survived until their execution day - had to stay in Newgate as a rotting corpse until relatives found the money for the body to be released. Stephen Halliday tells the story of Newgate's origins, the criminals it held, the punishments meted out and its rebuilding and reform. This is a compelling slice of London's social and criminal history.

Author : Gary Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351221418
Total Pages : 2368 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newgate Narratives written by Gary Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 2368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a representative body of Romantic and early Victorian crime literature. This work contains ephemeral material ranging from gallows broadsides to reports into prison conditions. It is suitable for those studying Literature, Romantic and Victorian popular culture, Dickens Studies and the History of Criminology.

Author : Gary Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351221299
Total Pages : 2368 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newgate Narratives written by Gary Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 2368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a representative body of Romantic and early Victorian crime literature. This work contains ephemeral material ranging from gallows broadsides to reports into prison conditions. It is suitable for those studying Literature, Romantic and Victorian popular culture, Dickens Studies and the History of Criminology.

Author : Gary Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351221361
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newgate Narratives Vol 2 written by Gary Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a representative body of Romantic and early Victorian crime literature. This work contains ephemeral material ranging from gallows broadsides to reports into prison conditions. It is suitable for those studying Literature, Romantic and Victorian popular culture, Dickens Studies and the History of Criminology.

Author : Arthur Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chronicles of Newgate written by Arthur Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752342307
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chronicles of Newgate written by Arthur Griffiths and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Chronicles of Newgate by Arthur Griffiths

Author : Gary Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351221329
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newgate Narratives Vol 3 written by Gary Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a representative body of Romantic and early Victorian crime literature. This work contains ephemeral material ranging from gallows broadsides to reports into prison conditions. It is suitable for those studying Literature, Romantic and Victorian popular culture, Dickens Studies and the History of Criminology.

Author : Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465605630
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime: Chronicles of Newgate from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century (Complete) written by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combat with crime is as old as civilization. Unceasing warfare is and ever has been waged between the law-maker and the law-breaker. The punishments inflicted upon criminals have been as various as the nations devising them, and have reflected with singular fidelity their temperaments or development. This is true of the death penalty which in many ages was the only recognized punishment for crimes either great or small. Each nation has had its own special method of inflicting it. One was satisfied simply to destroy life; another sought to intensify the natural fear of death by the added horrors of starvation or the withholding of fluid, by drowning, stoning, impaling or by exposing the wretched victims to the stings of insects or snakes. Burning at the stake was the favourite method of religious fanaticism. This flourished under the Inquisition everywhere, but notably in Spain where hecatombs perished by the autos-da-fŽ or "trials of faith" conducted with great ceremony often in the presence of the sovereign himself. Indeed, so terrible are the records of the ages that one turns with relief to the more humane methods of slowly advancing civilization,Ñthe electric chair, the rope, the garotte, and even to that sanguinary "daughter of the Revolution," "la guillotine," the timely and merciful invention of Dr. Guillotin which substituted its swift and certain action for the barbarous hacking of blunt swords in the hands of brutal or unskilful executioners. Savage instinct, however, could not find full satisfaction even in cruel and violent death, but perforce must glut itself in preliminary tortures. Mankind has exhausted its fiendish ingenuity in the invention of hideous instruments for prolonging the sufferings of its victims. When we read to-day of the cold-blooded Chinese who condemns his criminal to be buried to the chin and left to be teased to death by flies; of the lust for blood of the Russian soldier who in brutal glee impales on his bayonet the writhing forms of captive children; of the recently revealed torture-chambers of the Yildiz Kiosk where Abdul Hamid wreaked his vengeance or squeezed millions of treasure from luckless foes; or of the Congo slave wounded and maimed to satisfy the greed for gold of an unscrupulous monarch;Ñwe are inclined to think of them as savage survivals in "Darkest Africa" or in countries yet beyond the pale of western civilization. Yet it was only a few centuries ago that Spain "did to death" by unspeakable cruelties the gentle races of Mexico and Peru, and sapped her own splendid vitality in the woeful chambers of the Inquisition. Even as late as the end of the eighteenth century enlightened France was filling with the noblest and best of her land those oubliettes of which the very names are epitomes of woe: La Fin d'Aise, "The End of Ease;" La Boucherie, "The Shambles;" and La Fosse, "The Pit" or "Grave;" in the foul depths of which the victim stood waist deep in water unable to rest or sleep without drowning. Buoyed up by hope of release, some endured this torture of "La Fosse" for fifteen days; but that was nature's limit. None ever survived it longer.

Author : Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : Golden Text
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chronicles of Newgate Vol.2 written by Arthur Griffiths and published by Golden Text. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years immediately following the erection of the new gaol, crime was once more greatly in the ascendant. After the peace which gave independence to the United States, the country was overrun with discharged soldiers and sailors. They were mostly in dire poverty, and took to depredation almost as a matter of course. The calendars were particularly heavy. At the September Sessions of the Old Bailey in 1783, fifty-eight were convicted for capital offences. The Deputy Recorder, in passing sentence, remarked that it gave him inexpressible pain, and that it was truly alarming "to behold a bar so crowded with persons whose wickedness and imprudence had induced them to commit such enormous crimes as the laws of their country justly and necessarily punish with death.