The Seven Who Were Hanged by Leonid Andreyev
"The Seven Who Were Hanged" by Leonid Andreyev is a horror novella written in 1908. After a failed assassination attempt on a minister, seven condemned prisoners await execution by hanging: five revolutionaries, an Estonian farmhand who murdered his employer, and a violent thief. In their final days, each prisoner confronts their approaching death in starkly different ways. The novella explores how these diverse individuals—from a motherly revolutionary leader to a confused farmhand
to a jovial bandit—grapple with mortality's shadow. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-1919 |
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| Translator | Bernstein, Herman, 1876-1935 |
| Uniform Title | Razskaz o semi povieshennykh. English |
| Title | The Seven Who Were Hanged |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Who_Were_Hanged |
| Note | Translation of: Rasskaz o semi poveshennykh |
| Credits | Produced by Eric Eldred, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Executions and executioners -- Russia -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 6722 |
| Release Date | Oct 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jun 27, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 913 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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