A01=Charles Duff
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all very proper to be read and kept in every family
Author_Charles Duff
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barbed wit
being a short introduction to the fine art of execution
bertholt brecht
bloodlust mobs
botched executions
capital punishment
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classic satire
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decapitation
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deterrent
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electrocution
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gassing
hanging
justice
killing
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satire
satiric tribute
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the hangman
vengeance
Product details
- ISBN 9780752460680
- Weight: 220g
- Dimensions: 130 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2011
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A Handbook on Hanging is a satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation: the hangman. With barbed wit, Charles Duff not only writes of hanging, but also of electrocution, decapitation and gassing; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of bloodlust mobs and the political expedients of the great. A classic satire, admired by Bertholt Brecht and Dylan Thomas, Duff’s polemic makes it clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be – justice, vengeance, a deterrent – it is certainly killing.
