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A Hanging (1931) is a short essay written by George Orwell, first published (under his real name) in August 1931 in the John Middleton Murry’s British literary magazine The Adelphi [1] and then reprinted in 1946 in the British literary magazine The New Savoy.
Peyton Farquhar, a civilian who is also a wealthy planter and slave owner, is being prepared for execution by hanging from an Alabama railroad bridge during the American Civil War. Six military men and a company of infantrymen are present, guarding the bridge and carrying out the sentence. Farquhar thinks of his wife and children and is then ...
Aarachaar (Ārāccāṟ lit. ' Executioner '; transl. Hangwoman: Everyone Loves a Good Hanging) is a Malayalam novel written by K. R. Meera. [1] Originally serialised in Madhyamam Weekly in continuous 53 volumes, the novel was published as a book by DC Books in 2012.
Rodock believes in lynching rustlers personally without arrest or trial. His wrangler McNulty describes it as "a hanging sickness" to Rodock's woman, Jocasta Constantine, a former dance-hall girl ashamed of her past. McNulty makes a pass at Jo. A jealous and suspicious Rodock sees them leave a barn together and jumps to the wrong conclusion.
The Hanging Stranger" is a science fiction-horror short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, originally published in December 1953 in the magazine Science Fiction Adventures. It has been reprinted in several anthologies , and published in French , Italian and German . [ 1 ]
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The Hanging Tree is a 1957 novelette written by Dorothy M. Johnson. It follows the arrival of Doctor Joseph Frail to a small gold rush town in Montana, 1873. Elizabeth, the sole survivor of a carriage robbery falls under his care. When the town strikes big on gold, a mob forms and seeks to lynch Frail.