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Resisting Hitler
Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
Stolen in the night
A Perfect Evil
38 nooses
Prescription--medicide
The ring and the book
The Green Mile
Nine Days a Queen
The hangman's hymn
Great Short Works of Herman Melville
Billy Budd and Other Tales
Billy Budd
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Among the lowest of the dead
A Tale of Two Cities
Flanna and the lawman
History of Louis Philippe
The death penalty
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The Pardon
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
The thin executioner
The Bloody Tower (My Story)
Novels (Christmas Carol / Great Expectations / Oliver Twist / Tale of Two Cities)
Novels (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd / Encantadas)
Billy
The Last Witchfinder
The Confession
Far from the storm
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