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The Seven Who Were Hanged

The Seven Who Were Hanged

by Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-1919

BookID: 6722

Language:English

Translator:Bernstein, Herman, 1876-1935

Uniform Title:Razskaz o semi povieshennykh. English

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 79.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Executions and executioners -- Russia -- Fiction

Description

"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.)

Class:PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature

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