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Poems Lyrical and Dramatic
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The Man They Couldn't Hang
A play in two Acts with an Introduction by the author. The story of John 'Babbacombe' Lee is one of the most bizarre in English criminal history. Lee is the only person to have been reprieved by a Home Secretary after standing on a gallows trap which failed to open. This happened at Exeter Prison in 1885 when the notoriously inept public hangman James Berry gave up after three abortive attempts. Lee spent 22 years in prison before being released. On retirement, Berry from Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, who carried out 134 executions, was the first executioner to write about his experiences in My Experiences As An Executioner. His resulting celebrity led to him taking to the boards, spinning grueso...
Free to Fly
What do you do when a loved one has committed corporate fraud? How do you manage when your life-partner is jailed? Free to Fly is one woman's account of how she dealt with this major life challenge. An announcement from her husband a few days before Christmas shattered every aspect of her comfortable existence and destroyed any future expectations. The author was a middle aged woman in a middle class suburb to the east of Melbourne. Her husband had been a partner for over twenty years in an internationally recognised accounting firm. She was looking forward to commencing a Yoga teacher training course which would allow her to move into next phase of her life. Unlike many, she turned to spiri...
Poems Lyrical and Dramatic, by Evelyn Douglas
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...forgets thee, now gone out of time Out of space. Where, where art thou, Father of souls? We would clasp thee, we know that thou art: Like an ocean thine influence rolls With its billows of love o'er our heart. We would know thee, would cling to thy peace, In thy bosom find shelter for aye, And let wrong and its memory cease Far away. But thy thunders, thy thunders awake, And they scatter all living like chaff, And the good and the evil must quake When thy whirlwinds and...
